While many U.S. metropolitan suburbs suffer from declining investment, some older, established suburbs are defying the odds with a hometown feel and ever-wealthier citizens. "Kojo in Your Community" goes on location to the City of Falls Church, Va. to see how this suburb stays affordable -- or not -- and how a skyrocketing cost-of-living impacts the city.
http://thekojonnamdishow.org/shows/2006-05-03/kojo-your-community-affording-life-suburbs
Kojo In Your Community: Affording Life in the Suburbs
Listen Wednesday, May. 3, 2006 at 12:06 p.m. in Kojo in Your Community
CD or 
TRANSCRIPT of this program.
Guests
Nicholas Benton
Editor-in-chief of the Falls Church News Press
Keith Thurston
Former Falls Church Planning Commissioner, Director of Historic Falls Church and board member of the Falls Church Village Preservation and Improvement Society
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