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| Wash Post DC Living
Barbara Ioanes's alarm clock lives across the street. For the 33 years Ioanes has lived in her historic rowhouse on Cathedral Avenue NW, she's woken to the hoots, chirps and caws of the animals at the National Zoo, which forms the eastern boundary of Woodley Park. Ioanes said it provides a daily reminder of Woodley Park's cultural amenities and charm.
The 24 houses of Oakton Plantation sit amid countless other subdivisions but seem almost like a self-contained small town.
Columbia has never looked or felt like a city, despite being the size of one. Is it time for that to change?
Whether people move to Columbia's Clemens Crossing neighborhood for dramatic architect-designed homes or affordable tract houses, their reasons for buying in the neighborhood are largely the same: good schools, a woodsy setting and a convenient location.
A hundred years ago, life in Eckington was all about the streetcar. Now it's all about the Metro, with stations anchoring the north and south ends of the Northeast Washington neighborhood.
Last month, I may have glimpsed the Washington region's future -- I spent five days in sprawling, traffic-choked Los Angeles.
Accokeek, in southern Prince George's County, has a dual personality not readily visible from Route 210, a four-lane highway that bisects the community.
David Mog, a 26-year resident of Arlington Forest, has a concern. A few new neighbors aren't abiding by the informal neighborhood code -- and he came to the Arlington Forest Citizens Association meeting last month to do something about it.
The unofficial Web site for the Villas of Ashburn proclaims that it is maintained by "a renegade group of volunteer residents" who declare themselves to be "55 or better (most of us are better)."
On a crisp spring day, Ron Morgan walked into the D.C. Housing Authority, desperate, almost homeless and hoping to find a place to live with an affordable monthly rent. His name was placed on a list for a rent subsidy voucher and he was told to wait.
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