We've moved

Old backyard- the right corner villa
New backyard. About 4 times the size. There's even storage for our bikes beside me.
Old villa with no side yard and no privacy.
New side yard with garden and full privacy. This is what gives us an extra parking space on the front as well.

We were in a corner villa with an 8' X 10' "backyard", one parking space and nooo privacy. The housing committee initially refused our request to move across the street to another villa that had opened up, but we kept at them (with some help from Megan) and I'm thrilled that we did. This villa is much dustier than the old one, which was more protected from the winds, but it's a price I'm happy to pay. My cleaners might not be happy about it, but they didn't have enough to do. We use to have to close our curtains around 4:30 because it gets dark so early, but now we don't close them at all. The villa next to us has no high windows on that side, so we maintain total privacy and yet don't have the horrible closed in feeling having those heavy drapes shut for 6 hours a day.

The movers came at about 9am and hand carried most of our things to the exact same spot in the new villa in about 2 hours.