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| | Mishkaneer: First Visit to Point Roberts |
 | | Point Roberts, Washington, USA, is five square miles of a peninsula in the Fraser River Delta (also known as metropolitan Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada) that happens to dip below the 49th parallel, creating, in effect, a tiny island of metro Vancouver in Washington State. |
 | | The Point has been called the "world's greatest gated community" owing to this, the tiniest, cutest, and easiest international border crossing I have ever seen. |
 | | Despite the surreally rural atmosphere and land cost on Point Roberts, most neighborhoods are physically close-knit -- which, happily, leaves most of the Point still forested -- as though urban density were required here as in the central city, but with house structures at a much more human scale. |
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