Hard times in the land of plenty.

[rhipsher]

This truly saddens me to see. Accross the street from me about 5 houses down there's a nice two story house with a nice young couple and 4 kids. The husband is a computer programmer. BMW and a Lexus suv always parked in the driveway. Beautiful yard. This guy and his wife worked on it all of the time. Your classic upper middle class family that had been there almost as long as we have. In 2000 when we bought our home the neighborhood was not even done being built. This guys house and ours were 2 of only 6 houses that were complete on our street. Construction going on all around us. But about 6 months ago I started to notice something changing. First thing was the constant downgrading in vehicles until they were down to just one older Toyota pickup. The second thing was the yard became totally neglected. Next the house. Next a big garage sale. Next a big moving truck. They've been gone 3 days now. So today while walking by the house I noticed a notice on the front door.

Poor guy got laid off and the house got foreclosed on.


I didn't know them that well. Said hi a few times at the mailbox but that was it. Life goes on.