Down comes another house

I can hear the bulldozers scraping yet another house in our hood - this time the one right behind us. Granted, the little mid-century house had seen better days and at 1200sf just isn't big enough for most Americans anymore. However, by searching city permits, I learned that it is being replaced with a 4000sf, 5 br, 4 bath "house". At present sf prices, it will be listed for just under a million when completed and set another precedent for replacing small houses with huge houses in this area. So sad to watch them destroying and trashing all the elements of the house too - the small trees and shrubbery, the flagstone siding, the oak floors, etc as if it was so much rubbish. Sigh...nothing ever stays the same I guess.

Down comes another house