Letters to the Editor
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your neighbour's feeling abandoned!
Suddenly you have a JOB!....... and she doesn't.
A job is money, status, a new sense of identity, new circumstances, a new circle of acquaintances (that doesn't include her) and all the possibilities that might bring. She can't factor all that change into the version of you that she's comfortable with. It's too scary and threatening for her. Otherwise, cutting you off so completely after an intimate friendship, just doesn't make sense unless there's a major emotional subtext of hurt and jealousy going on.
So you've moved on? Fine! She shall do the same, and rub your face in it, just to prove how unimportant you (dang you, with your fancy new life'n all!) are to her.
Give it time. You have to allow her to be herself, cold attitude and all, however unfair it feels. Maybe, if the friendship was really a true friendship, she may come round.