Are you a nosy neighbour?

[mumofoneAlonebutokay]

I'm not the interfering kind a la Norris from Corrie

I've got a ring doorbell and I do have a look at what people are doing 🙈

I'll even remark to myself, 'she's going out again, omg' or see what they've brought back from the shops

I love to look out of the window for no reason as well

No point to this thread really 😭😭, just inspired by my neighbour getting another deliveroo takeaway and me passing judgement and secretly wishing I was getting a takeaway 🙈🤭

No point to this thread really 😭😭, just inspired by my neighbour getting another deliveroo takeaway and me passing judgement and secretly wishing I was getting a takeaway 🙈🤭

Hi neighbour across the road 👋 we're having Chinese tonight.

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Not at all, I haven’t seen my neighbours for months! I did hear one of them doing some gardening the other day and it made me think that I really should pull my finger out and start doing my own, but of course, I didn’t.

I am but only cause there's sheep in there and I'm dying to see a few wobbly lambs. None as yet.

No but we don’t really sit in the front of our house unless we have a fire on in there during the colder months in which case it would mostly be in the evenings and the shutters would be closed.
We do have neighbours though that we are friendly with and will happily fill us in with all the street gossip - I swear if you farted within 20ft of their front door they’d be checking and rechecking their camera footage.
I like them but presume they don’t have much of a life beyond twitching their curtains. They don’t really go out much and one is retired, the other wfh.
I find it a bit much that they know who’s on holiday based on what cars are in their drives and how often they’ve moved, asking me if I like the new car on x’s drive (would never have noticed!) and more importantly who’s glass recycling bins are overflowing (yes sometimes ours 😂 but we do have a lot of people round!!).

No I'm not

I do have a ring doorbell but my door is at the side so it doesn't give any clues as to what's going on with the neighbours anyway! 🤣

I love my ring doorbell

We can see one neighbours house directly from the front of ours, single man who orders huge amounts of takeaway food. It would be very weird for a day to pass without a delivery. His current record is 3 in a day - Maccys x 2 and pizza. We like to keep track of how many days his badly hung washing has been out (only onto day 2 for current load)

We like to keep track of how many days his badly hung washing has been out (only onto day 2 for current load)

My neighbour at the back once had their bedding hanging out for 12 days 😬 Yes I counted. I guess I must be a nosey neighbour.

No. I don't care what they're doing.
Their day to day I mean.
If they started doing weird or illegal shit I'm sure I'd have an opinion.

Thanks very much for giving me something else to be paranoid about. 😂We've not got a ring doorbell and I naively thought they only recorded when someone rings the bell! Now I'm wondering if neighbours are spying on me! We don't get takeaways much but I'm guessing we are likely being Amazon/Evri delivery shamed by our neighbours. 🙈

Its better for emerging bees and insects to leave the garden clean up for another month or so, so you're actually dead right to leave it!!

Yes, totally! WFH and a ring doorbell have been the best things for me ever.

I judge my skanky neighbours who get loads of takeaways and never bring their bins in. They have arms, legs and work and just walk right past them.
Who has flytipped and I can report to the council again.
What the drug dealers are up to and should I call 101 again.
Why have the grotty new family got dog number 3 in a year when they are shite at looking after them.
The blokes who looked dodgy were indeed breaking into a house 3 doors down so some poor 999 call handler had me squeeking down the phone at them.
The 20 something daughters in one house have both got horrible boyfriends and could do so much better.
The council had better not be spraying weed killer around my house as I told them not to.

It is basically Rear Window in this house, if Grace Kelly wore Primark trackpants.

Not in the slightest, I don't even know who lives nearby and don't really care... I have thin walls and can't bear to overhear anything going on so I purposely turn things up

I hate those doorbells. I think you need to find a life of your own 😂

We recently moved to a quiet lane and have renovated what had been a derelict house. DH is very techy and installed cameras outside, along with a ring type doorbell.

I love being able to check on my laptop if I hear someone/something outside. I certainly don't sit watching it all day, I work full time for a start, but its been SO handy.

We had teens vandalise us early on, so I feel reassured that I can check the cameras if needed. Being able to check back has been very handy on a number of occasions, but I'm not sitting in the front room staring out the window all day.

😭😭 I'm sorry!!

The battery doorbells record motion nearby, the wired ones can constantly record

Not really. I can’t bear nosiness. It’s such an ugly trait. In general, it means taking pleasure in other people’s misfortune.

I'm not nosy in an intrusive kind of way, but I live in a rural village with a population of 900 so gossip travels superfast around here.

The chairman of our parish council likes to tell some whopping fibs to the biggest gossips to see how fast it gets around, which can be funny. DH mentioned something in passing to someone yesterday, within a couple of hours our opposite neighbour had texted me about it! 🤣

It doesn't bother me at all - I grew up with a very victorian stepfather who was excessively and obsessively private, so being spoken to by a neighbour was very stressful as I didn't know what I was allowed to say. Indulging in gossip in my 50's feels very liberating, and anyway, everyone in the village knowing who you are, what you drive and where you've been on holiday actually makes me feel safe.

I do wonder if our neighbours notice that we go out for food a lot and have grown visibly larger since we moved here 4 years ago haha.

Jesus Christ. Perhaps instead of wishing you were getting a takeaway you should focus on getting a life. I despise people like you.

No don't feel bad. I needed to know about this. I'm such a luddite with tech stuff. 😂even my mum and dad have got a ring doorbell.

Not at all , my husband is the nosey one but I tend to have the blinds closed at the front when I’m WFH as otherwise the dog barks at every car / person / blade of grass that moves

😄😄😄 fucking hell don't hold back on your opinion girl

😄😄 they're definitely useful, even just for security

That sounds like a lovely place to live tbh 😄

City life is for me but i love gossip 🤭