The most desirable downtown neighbourhoods are in the foothills of the Wasatch Range, such as The Avenues, Oak Hills and Sugar House.

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At the Pizza House on Oak Street, waitstaff and locals discussed the state of their homes while drinking their beers, trying to figure out how to deal with the fact their once quaint farming town now resembled a war zone.

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In his mind he saw his fixer-upper all fixed up, a gleaming, wood-polished house, a stop on the Oak Park landmark tour, and, sliding down the bannister, into his providing, fatherly arms, Eleanor.

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Her one-story beige house, on a hillside surrounded by oak and birch trees, has only three small bedrooms, but there are two beds in the living room and more in the basement to handle the occasional overflow.

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The property, located less than 30 minutes from Philadelphia, has a 40, 000-square-foot main house with eight bedrooms, nine bathrooms, oak floors and floor-to-ceiling windows.

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Ms Gill and her two sons, Oak, 18, and Daegan, 14, had no house insurance and lost most of their possessions in the fire.

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Neighbors were not as fortunate as a huge old oak took out their garage and thankfully just a small part of their house.

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Less than five years after the Royal Oak appeared, Genta supplied a design to Audemars Piguet's rival watch house, Patek Philippe.

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