Similar to the the story of our house in Roseville. We watched it being built. We planted the trees that have now reached maturity. I was born and lived my whole life in California. Got to get out while we can.
Stop. You're making me tear up for our old house in Compton.
Mom sold the house in 1975, but I remember planting the little palms and Joshua trees in the front yard with her when I was seven or eight.
Those trees towered over the house by the time it sold. Years later, I drove by, and the owners had cut them all down. I almost cried.