Reality check

We moved out of the neighborhood we lived in for 15 years. We sold it to the only person to give us an offer. He wanted to use it for a rental. There were a lot of people moving out of our neighborhood, many because of the different ethnic populations that were moving in. We were told by some of the people moving out, that as other ethnic groups came in, the neighborhoods would go downhill.

The house next to us was sold to an hispanic couple. They seemed to be the nicest people.

The irony is that our former hispanic neighbor kept his house and yard better groomed than the white people who bought our old house. The grass at our old house had not been cut since last year and it was knee high. I think they were made to get it cut by the city. The hispanic couple, on the other hand, does the neighborhood proud.

We can be so narrow minded and see what we want to see. Sometimes we need a reality check to help us see what is really going on.