Do you ever feel like you live in a fish bowl?

Yes I do. I live in a little town so everyone knows everyone elses business anyway but to make it worse we live at the end of main street. I used to have my window without a shade because I have my computer right by it and I loved watching outside while I worked. Well after everyone kept waving and then asking me what do you do on your computer all day I decided I didn't like being watched so had to put up a shade. If I go outside everyone stops to ask me questions or to tell me the recent gossip. It drives me nuts. I suppose it is harder for me because I came from a city where I didn't even know hardly any of my neighbors. So yep I am in a fish bowl and no where to swim to hide*L*

No, not really! I live in the Town of Vienna, in an apartment block and every one pretty much keeps to themselves, except ONE neighbor who tends to know everyones business LOL If I need to find out anything like for e.g. there was a police man knocking on our neighbors door across the hall and I was worried something happened while we were away in Connecticut, so I asked her and she most definitely knew LOL - nothing to get worried about so that was good!) We do watch out for each others places though which is one good thing I like about living here :)

Yeah, I do all the time. My immediate neighbors are unfortunately very nosy and I am not comfortable at all with them. It's as if I am a celebrity or something. I can't do something without being asked why. They make me pissed off, I don't feel the privacy anymore being around them. When their questions are too much, and I can no longer tolerate and being nice, I would just be sarcastic to them and told them what they wanted to hear, even though it's not the truth. I don't know what is the reason they are saying things like that. Maybe it's jealousy. I am not sure, that's the acceptable reason that I can think of.

yeh you are right we live in a fish bowl. becasuse i liv in a high apartment in the third floor and i see everday people walking our the door and the world looks like the fish bowl

Oh yea, we live in a fish bowl. WE live in an apartment complex on the first floor so we always have to watch what we say cause people are always walking by .You get stared at all the time. that's what's so cool living in a rural or semi rural area-no prying eyes ,don't have to watch what you say,etc

yes,i do...sometimes i feel like i live in a fish bowl.my city is cute,but small and i don't have many places to visit,to take a walk.i got bored of all the parks.i'm glad because i won't stay in my city all summer long.anyway,i find activities....thx God i have imagination and new ideas!

Yes I think I'am where alot of people does not do or dont have a job and they make their job to always look at their neighbors way of living they always bother to see what their neighbors are doing and even find time to have always chit chat about their neighbors which I really hate.

no, never, because i do not let anybody affects me. i do not care if they look at me, i have my own way! i can laugh, giggle outside or inside my home, my baby can play freely. i can scream in a movie house because of horror films, i really express what i feel and i really show what's the real me no matter what they say! as long as i am not hurting anyone.

I used to feel like that when I was still living in Canada but since moving here to the country in NY I dont feel like that at all and WOW is it ever a nice feeling!!! I can go across the way in my pjs to get the mail..hell I could probably do it in my undies and nobody so much as bats an eye LOL

I live in an urban city, tinam. As soon as I stepped out of the house, there will be a lot of people on the street. I actually have a neighbor whose 4 children are forever yelling and screaming outside of their house. They also love to loiter around by throwing papers or junk food anywhere. I have to admit that I find this irritating at times especially when I have clients dropping by at my house. It would be so much better if my neighbor knows that a little semblance of peace is needed from time to time.

Where I live now no I do not fell like I live in a fishbowl. I have no neighbors that can see me when I walk outside. But I know what you are talking about because when I lived in an apartment house I use to hate it. I would not want to even go out and walk to my car in the parking lot because so many people would be out there gawking. I would make sure I had the right clothes on and a little make up and my hair was combed. But where I live now I go out in my pj's too. I love it we have 2 acres and no neighbors close by!

There are times when I feel like I live in a fish bowl. Our neighbors on the one side seem to like to stare at is when they are outside at the same time as us. There was a day a few weeks ago that our two year old German Shepard mix got out of our yard. My daughter came inside to tell my fiancee and I about it as our sons were calling her name to get her to come back. There at the edge of our property stood our neighbors son who is in his twenties. He didn't offer to help or anything. He just stared at us as if we had just committed a crime or something.

Tina, I guess you live in a farm or homestead, so you can go out of your home and scream on top of your voice, and no one will hear you except the animals. Horses and dogs don't gossip I suppose, so you are quite safe...LOL. Unlike you, I live in an urban "jungle". My country is small and very built-up, so there are buildings all round me. If I shout till my lungs burst, the police will probably come knocking at my door because someone may think I have gone craxy. But my immediate neighbours are actually a friendly peaceful lot, and they are not nosy and pry into other people's affairs. So I still leave very peacefully and safe here. Actually the whole place is very safe here because it is a privatized estate with controlled entry and security guards around.

I'm the kinda person who tends to keep to myself and would enjoy the country life over the city life just for those reasons. I don't like to be the center of attention. I prefer that others don't know my business..but living in an apartment complex..everyone knows everyone elses business. I hope to move to the country eventually and get out of my fish bowl.

We live in an area where the neighbours don't bother about each other, and I have done daft things like walk over the road and pick dandelion leaves for our rabbit, no one bats an eyelid, no one watches. No twitching curtains and no nosey neighbours, bliss! Everyone keeps themselves to themselves, I would hate to live in a goldfish bowl, I'm lucky where I live!

Here I don't no even though I would not go out in my PJs lol as I think they would look but where I lived before I know they watched every Move but I never let it bother me

Not anymore. Several years ago we used to live in town and our neighbors were only a few feet from us on both sides. Definitely a residential neighbor. I didn't like it. We live in the country now on a small farm. Closest neighbor now is 1/4 mile away. When I walk outside in the mornings, the only ones looking is our horses too. Our driveway is a 1/4 mile long. It's nice to not have to worry about cats getting run over like when we lived in the city. I appreciate the privacy here.