Neighbors

We have lived in this house for 30 years. We have lived in this street longer than any other neighbors. We had all kinds of different people in the neighborhood, it used to be all "anglos" but now as in everywhere else, there's different ethnicities. Anglos, Mexican, Korean, black, El Salvadorians, and I am not sure what else.

To our right, there's a couple with a son and 2 daughters, and two big dogs they keep in the backyard and one of them won't stop barking! They are a nice family, and we get along well together. A few years ago they remodeled their house and added a floor, it was a very trying time for us, the noise, the dust, terrible! but now it is very nice and well kept. Next to them is an older Korean couple, with a son and a daughter, I think. I've never talked to them.

To our left, there's a young couple with a little boy and a baby girl. They are super nice.

Across from us, there's 3 houses that have seen a lot of movement in the past 3 years. Front left, there lived a nice old widowed lady, after she died earlier this year, this young black couple bought the house. They are both teachers, they are not around very much and I hardly see them.

Right in front of us there have been a couple of weird owners. I went with Sandy to look at the house one time, and he used to sell clothes in their garage until the police put a stop to it. They sold the house to a nice looking man. That was very entertaining! He had all kind of expensive cars, lots of sexy looking girls coming and going, etc. And then we had all the police raids, complete with helicopters, it was like a TV show, I think we had police activity 5 or 6 times. A couple of months ago he sold the house to a family from El Salvador, I think there's 4 adult and 2 children and a chihuahua. They are nice people.

Front right, there was an older couple that had lived in the neighborhood almost as long as us. Last month they decided to move to be closer to their daughter and grandchildren. They sold the house to 2 brothers from Iowa. One of them was an Army Ranger, and teaches college now, the other brother likes motorcycles, they have an old pitbull. It seems like they are going to remodel their garage and set it up to work on motorcycles. There's always 2 or 3 motorcycles around, they are noisy and there's a lot of noise while they are remodeling. I feel bad for the Salvadorian family. This street is residential and, I wonder if somebody is going to complain about it.

I'll keep you posted.