I’m not defending the family but my husband and I would probably be defined as not very social by some of our neighbors. Our neighborhood has changed over the last 15 years and there are few remaining here I wish to know. Some of the properties have become rentals and we have had problems with the occupants, including the young teen gang member who broke into an empty house on the next block that was for sale house and did 20,000 of damage to walls, doors, floors and windows.
I will nod and say hello but do not have any other interaction with most of them. We do check on a few elderly women who still live on the block and we exchange cat sitting services with the man on the corner and have dinner at the country club with a couple around the corner every other Fri. The ones we have interactions with are the long time neighbors who were living here when we moved here.
We live in an older once middle class historic neighborhood that is now declining. We do not want to move yet as we love our house and the town and when we do move upon retiring it will be back to my hometown.