LOL! That’s a terrible story! Neighbors can be awful.
The woman who wrote this is in her 70s and she’s somewhat lonely so I have tremendous sympathy. I own my mother’s house; she died a year and a half ago. Her next door neighbor who she was friendly with - an ex-nun, yet! - never once asked me what happened to her much less show up at her wake which was held two blocks from her house. And we were the very first people she notified when her husband died unexpectedly at home!
They keep to themselves, mow their grass and don’t have loud parties.
I guess it’s because they are retired military, they moved around for 30 years and never made many friends or socialized much.
But my next door neighbor is retired AF and they aren’t like them..............