Where the Obamas and Trumps are just part of the neighbourhood mix

Washington

EVERY morning, Meena Ahamed takes a five-kilometre walk around Kalorama, her north-western Washington neighbourhood. The enclave is exclusive, full of showpiece brick homes, many decorated with flying flags of distant republics.

Her stroll on Wednesday was serene save for the buzzing of saws, the thumping of hammers and the nearly constant chop-chop-chop of helicopters overhead. All were telltale signals that some well-known residents are moving in: former US president Barack Obama and his family; President Donald Trump's daughter Ivanka and her husband, Jared Kushner; and Amazon founder and billionaire Jeff Bezos, to name a few.