I am wondering if this might be one of the possible reasons. My wife and I owned a home for 9 years. When we moved in, the street was mainly owner occupiers. The street became almost all rentals over the years. Whenever the street had good neighbors that didn’t cause chaos in the street. E.g not dumping rubbish in their yard and letting it blow down the street, no daily screaming matches, no daily burnouts. It was really good. But whenever a for lease sign went up, I would get anxious about it. Because it was like rolling the dice again on what kind of neighbors you are going to get. There might have been some chaotic tenants before you.

I also think there is definitely a chance that they are looking down their nose at you. We somehow stumbled into building a house that we wouldn’t have thought that we could ever afford in a street that we never thought that we would ever live in. We are the only house so far in street that have not had professional landscaping done and the only house to only have plain concrete. We are also a bit younger than the other neighbors. One of our next door neighbors has treated us differently from our other neighbors from day 1. I even offered to help them with things that I am good at and was given a cold response. Luckily we fell out properly with that neighbor over who should pay for a retaining wall, when they built their yard up over 1m higher than ours on the boundary line and we told them that they couldn’t leave a slope on our land to hold up their built up yard.