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Is $5Million really that much for the D.C. housing market? I know normal, average working professionals who live in the burbs of DC and paid nearly $1Mil for houses that would cost a quarter of the price where I live. For heaven's sake, he didn't buy a $100M penthouse, right?
Is $5Million really that much for the D.C. housing market? I know normal, average working professionals who live in the burbs of DC and paid nearly $1Mil for houses that would cost a quarter of the price where I live. For heaven's sake, he didn't buy a $100M penthouse, right?
As said, it is a very, very swanky area. It is in the same league as Beverly Hills.
So no. It is no more typical of DC than Beverly Hills is of Los Angeles.
As said, it is a very, very swanky area. It is in the same league as Beverly Hills.
So no. It is no more typical of DC than Beverly Hills is of Los Angeles.
Obviously, it's a swanky area, but it doesn't seem over-the-top to me. He's a former president. Obviously he isn't going to go live in a working class area.
Obviously, it's a swanky area, but it doesn't seem over-the-top to me. He's a former president. Obviously he isn't going to go live in a working class area.
Take a walk through it sometime. Reminds one of both Paris and Oslo.
I was recently thinking about Obama leaving office (thank god) and online, pops up an article about Obama's new 5+ million dollar house in DC (oh the irony based on the fact that he wants to redistribute all the wealth in this country yet he is allowed to live in a lavish mansion). I looked up the address and noticed something. It is surrounded by Embassy of Oman, Turkey, Japan, Belize, and India. I then remembered that Hillary's house is right up the road and her house too is surrounded by embassies (Italy, Brazil, Sri Lanka, Denmark, New Zealand, and Bolivia).
Why is this? Added security measures for the ex-pres/FLOTUS? Political favors?
I just seems rather sketchy based off the fact that both Obama and Hillary (especially her) have a reputation for pushing more globalist policies and you wonder why they would buy a house located next to foreign government embassies.
With the fact that money is clearly not an issue for them, why not buy a house in Georgetown, Bethesda, Potomac, areas in VA?
How many ex-presidents have bought homes near embassies?
I expected a list of same and yet all I see is yet another Obama-bashing post.
Surely when that article popped up, it must have noted WHY the Obamas are staying in DC?????
It must have also noted that the Obamas did not BUY the residence but are renting.
If not, probably need better sources.
"But the president has a good reason for staying in the nation's capital: Obama wants his youngest daughter, Sasha, to finish high school in D.C., according to Politico, which first reported the news of the Obama's future Kalorama residence."
How many ex-presidents have bought homes near embassies?
I expected a list of same and yet all I see is yet another Obama-bashing post.
Surely when that article popped up, it must have noted WHY the Obamas are staying in DC?????
It must have also noted that the Obamas did not BUY the residence but are renting.
If not, probably need better sources.
"But the president has a good reason for staying in the nation's capital: Obama wants his youngest daughter, Sasha, to finish high school in D.C., according to Politico, which first reported the news of the Obama's future Kalorama residence."
He bought it thinking that he'd get a position in a Hillary Administration.
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