How to deal with nosy neighbours?
Just keep repeating evasive answers. The link below is a link to an awesome article by the Queen of Etiquette, Judith Martin. In case you don’t want to click it (there have been a lot of hackers here recently) I am quoting the important bit here: “GENTLE READER — There is something to be learned from nosy people. They keep pursuing the same line of questioning, undeterred by evasive answers. You were uncomfortable because the idea is to make the target uncomfortable to the point of being worn down enough to yield the information. Miss Manners recommends wearing them down instead by cheerfully repeating the same answers: “Oh, there are a lot of possibilities,” followed by, “Well, as I said, there are a lot of possibilities,” followed by, “I told you that there are a lot of possibilities.
