Try adding a couple more friends
I wonder if the two avatars on either side of our roadside stand are the median of our neighbours' levels. Try adding a couple of friends that are either both below or higher than your level. Perhaps that will change who you see. I do know how you feel about those creepy avatars, they don't seem quite right for Hay Day, do they? I love yours by the way, neighbour.
Yes, we had a neighbor like that --
Their avatar always upset my younger daughter who plays with me. Our theory is that anyone can have pretty much any avatar they choose (within some boundaries as discussed on other threads), so to avoid the unpleasant feeling with my youngest seeing his avatar, I unfriended them in game center. Problem solved.
We never heard a word back, so don't know of they ever even knew . . . which is OK.
Please folks, remember that KIDS play this game. Ixnay on the creepy/scary/crude avatars, OK?