One up, one down

As for-sale signs are installed or removed around the neighborhood, it's never historically been the new neighbors or potential ones that cause concern. To be dreaded are round-the-clock yappers and then those people with giant, heavy vehicles who use the driveways of others to get turned around rather than circumnavigate the block, crack people's curbs and driveways, and block driveways, newspaper deliveries, and trash pick-ups. Now to be feared are flippers, tear-down speculators, and people who believe they need three or four times more in the way of square footage than generations of larger households before them ever did.