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Imagine a house with three bedrooms, a bath or two, perhaps a family room. Put it on a quarter-acre lot with mature shrubs and trees, probably a patio or deck. Now imagine a selling price of about $200,000. You're thinking Manassas, maybe, or Frederick? Try inside the Capital Beltway.

This is Pimmit Hills, a 633-acre neighborhood of tree-lined streets near Tysons Corner in Fairfax County and within minutes of several major highways.

"The Hills," as many residents call it, is a place of great diversity and imagination, both in the houses evolving there and the people who live in them.

On one street is a prim white ranch with black shutters, a manicured lawn and a well-tended rose garden. On the next street is a house of butterscotch yellow sporting a whimsical "garden" of plastic flamingos and leprechauns, with whirligigs and green artificial turf decorating the walkway.