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The Big Read: In a wealthy US suburb, they sleep in a parking lot

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It's almost bedtime. John Baird Jr., 47, smokes on the hood of his 2004 Mercury Grand Marquis sedan , his plaid sleeping bag neatly tucked in the trunk. Kathleen McDermott , 81, slouches in the driver's seat of her 2002 Ford Focus station wagon . Two angel statuettes stare from her dashboard into clothes and clutter behind her. Scott Downey, 52, works a crossword puzzle on his phone inside a 2006 Chrysler Town & Country van that smells faintly like cats. Clothes hang on hooks in the back, and emergency supplies of ramen noodles and Vienna sausages sit out of plain view. Advertisement They are in a Home Depot parking lot , largely invisible among the subdivisions and sprawl of Northern Virginia's Fairfax County , the nation's second-wealthiest community. Sleeping in their cars, they are homeless but sort of not, a subset of a population officially classified as "unsheltered" and slowly shrinking in these suburbs of Washington, even as the nu...

Review of New Park Manor in the New Forest

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A sharp right off the poker-straight road from Lyndhurst to Brockenhurst and our weekend is laid bare before us. We kill the engine and exhale, the thrum of Friday night traffic long gone, replaced by a trio of ponies grazing in the fields before us. New Park Manor, a former 17th century hunting lodge , sits in one of the prettier patches of Hampshire’s New Forest, with the surrounding pastures, woodland and glades looking exactly as they might have done 500 years ago. When antiquity met modernity : 17th century hunting lodge New Park Manor lies between Lyndhurst and Brockenhurst and promises oodles of mod cons in a historic setting perfect stomping ground for little ones" class="blkBorder img-share" /> Mother Nature's playground: The New Forest is a perfect stomping ground for little ones Blonde of mane, friendly of face: The New Forest's wildlife wanders on the highways and byways of this picturesque portion of southern England History may abound, but ...

In a wealthy Virginia suburb, their cars are their beds

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John Baird Jr., 47. (Sarah L. Voisin/The Washington Post) It’s almost bedtime. John Baird Jr., 47, smokes on the hood of his 2004 Mercury Grand Marquis sedan , his plaid sleeping bag neatly tucked in the trunk. Kathleen McDermott, 81, slouches in the driver’s seat of her 2002 Ford Focus station wagon . Two angel statuettes stare from her dashboard into clothes and clutter behind her. Scott Downey, 52, works a crossword puzzle on his phone inside a 2006 Chrysler Town & Country van that smells faintly like cats. Clothes hang on hooks in the back, and emergency supplies of ramen noodles and Vienna sausages sit out of plain view. They are in a Home Depot parking lot , largely invisible among the subdivisions and sprawl of Northern Virginia’s Fairfax County , the nation’s second-wealthiest community. Sleeping in their cars, they are homeless but sort of not, a subset of a population officially classified as “unsheltered” and slowly shrinking in these suburbs of Washington, even ...