For Sale Sign Goes Up - One Neighbor’s Reaction
“Sorry it had to come to this, but the ‘for sale’ sign better come down tomorrow, or this picture will start strategically making its way around xxx [my place of employment] and the xxxxxx [our neighborhood we live in].” is what my closest neighbor, John, had to say about the “For Sale” sign going up in our front yard today. This is a photo that was taken of me last year when I was doing my annual ’shearing’ of my hair for the summer. John and his wife and five kids have been our back-yard neighbors since when we spent time in Singapore in 2001 and they kept an eye on the back side of our house. Since that time, our kids can regularly be found in the afternoon and evenings going from house to house playing together. We even re-built my fence together including the shared fence and put a gate in so the kids could run back and forth after school. It will be hard to say good-bye and even harder to replace what have been incredible neighbors and friends. We’ll miss our neighborhood and our good friends, John and Anna (and all five of their beautiful kids). 
