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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Basically someone who seems to know by heart what time you leave for work as well as what time you return.

Also one who can describe fully all your visitors too.[/quote]

The real question for me is WHY some people are like this. I just can't imagine having so little going on in my own life that I would sit around watching my neighbor's every move.

I live in a condo building and our upstairs neighbors are like this. And no they aren't empty nester retirees where you could chalk it up to boredom or loneliness. They are a married couple in their 30s with full time jobs. But they WFH (so do many people in the building) and clearly spend a lot of their time watching neighbors and cataloguing our every move. It's creepy. I think they believe "info is power" or something because they will often discuss their extensive observations at community meetings (which is how we all know they do this) like it's some kind of gotcha.

But the stuff they observe is always normal things that no one is bothered by. Once they announced that they'd been keeping track of everyone coming in and out of the front gate (it's a low iron gate between the building front steps and the sidewalk, more of a visual barrier than a security device) and noting who had been not fully latching the gate, because they felt this posed a security risk. Like literally they were watching from their windows every morning and making a note like "2B fails to fully engage latch" every time someone left the building. It was funny when they presented this info in a meeting because I think they expected everyone to respond with gratitude for their efforts in rooting out which of our neighbors are more lax about latching the gate but instead every single person in the building was united in thinking this was creepy AF and they were asked to please stop tracking this behavior.

People have also caught them trying to eavesdrop outside people's apartment doors in the hallway or taking photographs in the parking area (but no one knows of what -- we don't have any parking-related issues that they've raised or that anyone can think of).

It's really weird and I definitely sometimes feel like I'm being watched around the building because they are in such close proximity to us. Their unit is right above ours and they can see our entrance from theirs because they are either end of the last flight of stairs. Their balcony is right above ours and DH and I have taken to never having conversations on our balcony because I think they listen in.

I think it must be a control thing. It's really unfortunate because we've had fantastic luck with neighbors in our building otherwise. I wish they'd move.[/quote]

NP. Kinda seems like you're watching them a lot?[/quote]

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