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Neighbour has people staying over for a week now

123 replies

spababe · 30/12/2020 09:11

We are Tier 2.
Visitors arrived the day it was announced London was going into Tier 4 and neighbour happily told DH that visitors had 'got out before lockdown'.
Neighbour only moved in this Summer from Surrey.
She is on her own (normally) so I suppose they formed a support bubble.
Must be a few of them though as there are now 3 cars on the drive instead of 1.
WWYD? Anything?

OP posts:
GoneScone · 30/12/2020 09:14

I would do nothing

PotteringAlong · 30/12/2020 09:15

So a single adult has legitimately formed a support bubble (you can cross tiers to do that) and you want to do what, precisely?

DownWhichOfLate · 30/12/2020 09:16

I’d mind my own business.

Mintjulia · 30/12/2020 09:16

If they are her support bubble, and they left London before Tier 4 then I'm not sure there is anything you can report.

If they hold a house party for another 10 then maybe, but as it stands.....no.

Stationfork · 30/12/2020 09:17

People are allowed to move house whenever they want really.

Randominternetbitch · 30/12/2020 09:18

Nothing. Mind your own business and get a life.

Werk · 30/12/2020 09:18

Nothing. What is it to you? As you say, they could have legitimately have entered into a support bubble.

This is the reason we did not go stay with my MIL (we are in a support bubble with her) - nosey neighbours making her life difficult for it.

TammyHullfigure · 30/12/2020 09:19

I know the covid restrictions are dull, but seriously just pick up a book or something.
Stop poking your nose in other people's business.

ivykaty44 · 30/12/2020 09:19

What is it that your single neighbour is doing that you think you should report?

TheAlphaandtheOmega · 30/12/2020 09:19

Nothing, perfectly legal to have a support bubble, supporting household can be any size as long as household

Sitt · 30/12/2020 09:19

You can leave tier 4 to be with your support bubble. You have no idea of the circumstances. Leave them be.

GetOffYourHighHorse · 30/12/2020 09:21

There's nothing you can do. People are using the excuse of support bubbles to travel miles from tier 4 areas. No wonder we're up to 53,000 new cases.

You just have to hope the vaccine roll out is swift!

helloxhristmas · 30/12/2020 09:21

WWID? Nothing. HTH.

Sitt · 30/12/2020 09:23

People are using support bubbles, which may be miles outside a tier 4 area, to access support, as they are entitled to do

onedayinthefuture · 30/12/2020 09:24

I'd mind your own business and get a life. You also don't know that your neighbour might be going through a crisis and needs support.

GetOffYourHighHorse · 30/12/2020 09:30

'People are using support bubbles, which may be miles outside a tier 4 area, to access support, as they are entitled to do'

True, however surely a support bubble would be a single person locally who we help on a daily or weekly basis with shopping or social support.Travelling 200 miles for example (from tier 4 fgs) to visit someone that you don't normally see for months on end would seem a tenuous definition of a 'support bubble'. Still they're entitled so that makes it all great innit.

Sitt · 30/12/2020 09:31

I know someone who is visited by their support bubble on a weekly basis and they live 300 miles apart. I am sure this enrages your just as much, however

Sitt · 30/12/2020 09:32

Really, if you can’t imagine different kinds of support and how that might be organised then it’s your failing

MellowYellow101 · 30/12/2020 09:38

You dont know their circumstances. I'm not going to give details but I had family come help me last week with my kids and I know the neighbours opposite me didn't approve as everytime someone came in they were looking through the window. You don't know what they were going through and neither did my neighbours with me.

Yes we have guidance in place to stop the spread however use there is such a thing as common sense. Please don't make assumptions unless you know for a fact they were just faffing around and not giving a care in the world.

Chloemol · 30/12/2020 09:38

Gosh the normal rude posts in here I see

Yes it maybe a support bubble but I wouldn’t expect three cars. Perhaps just a case of asking her

Why are people so nasty? I just don’t get it. Would you all like to be spoken to like that in RL?

MsTSwift · 30/12/2020 09:40

I would get a hobby and step away from the window! Also I would be horrified I had become a curtain twitcher Hyacinth Bucket type.

southeastdweller · 30/12/2020 09:40

For goodness sake, have you got nothing better to do with your time? Get a hobby and maybe you could eventually get a life.

maddy68 · 30/12/2020 09:41

And ....? They haven't broken any law, they got out before the new restrictions.

I would mind your own business and hope they had a lovely Christmas

GetOffYourHighHorse · 30/12/2020 09:42

'know someone who is visited by their support bubble on a weekly basis and they live 300 miles apart. I am sure this enrages your just as much, however'

Oh no I'm not enraged! More resigned to the stupidity of many. Throughout this pandemic people have used any way to get round the rules and then hand wring over the soaring numbers and wail 'why aren't they doing something!!!!!'. Of course genuine support bubbles are important and for example extreme cases like end of life are exemptions but I can't think why tf anyone would travel miles from tier 4 just cos it's new year and there's a buffet on.

As I say just got to hope the vaccines roll out is swift. Bet the flouters will expect it first of course.

HarrietOh · 30/12/2020 09:42

As someone living alone who was terrified to form a bubble in lockdown 1 because of potential nosey neighbours, I wish people would just mind their own bloody business.