Why do other people love to talk about their neighbors?

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My family lives in a subdivision few kilometers away from the city. At first we thought the place was perfect for us since the village is quiet and all of our neighbors are educated but were wrong, the place is good but not the neighborhood or at least not all of them. The problem about them is that they love to talk about us, all of us in the family. I don't understand why and what have we done wrong to them, you see, we don't hang in the street, all of my siblings are working and so we are all busy, we have no time to stop and spread nosy gossip around. We are quiet people, when we have no work we rather stay inside our house, to make it short we rather sleep or chat with one another than to go out of our house and chat with the neighbor. Lately I've been hearing stories from them about my family, they keep saying that we are dirty, that we are being bankrupt, that we are snob and so on and so forth. They are also spreading news that we are selling our house because it will be foreclose by the bank and we'll end up with nothing. Funny but these are all full of crap! I don't understand why they keep on pestering us instead of taking care of their family and their own lives. We have nothing to do with them and infact we've been ignoring those nosy news coming from them for years now, thinking they will get tired of talking about us but to no avail it seems that they are enjoying talking about us everyday. We try our best not to be affected with those gossip but sometimes it seems that enough is enough, i am so pissed-off that i want to yell at them and confront them about their attitude. I don't know when will they stop talking about us of if they will gonna stop.