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Bellingham, WA
is the county seat of Whatcom County in the U.S. state of Washington.

It is situated on Bellingham Bay, which is protected by Lummi Island, Portage Island, and the Lummi Peninsula, and opens onto the Strait of Georgia. It lies west of Mount Baker and Lake Whatcom (from which it gets its drinking water), north of the Chuckanut Mountain and Skagit Valley, and Whatcom Creek runs through the center of the city. Whatcom County Real Estate

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Bellingham Real Estate
Bellingham has seen a resurgence of real estate development recently even as house prices continue to climb, caused mainly by an onslaught of 'Seattleites' moving northward to escape a crowded Seattle, and rapid expansion of Western Washington University, bringing new students to the city.

In order to accommodate the Bellingham real estate boom, Bellingham has been developing heavily in 3 key areas: Downtown, Fairhaven, and Cordata. The city has reiterated their commitment to developing a wide range of housing options for all income categories, while retaining the integrity of existing communities. Annexation of surrounding farmland and county wilderness has been kept to a minimum due to public concern for environmental preservation, but several controversies have risen over the city's decisions to counteract the loss of land with lifted height caps on new downtown buildings.

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The tongue in cheek nickname of Bellingham is the "City of Subdued Excitement." In the early 1980s, a local politician called Bellingham this in seriousness, and the local alternative press and alternative culture has been using this nickname ever since.

The Bellingham International Airport serves regularly scheduled commuter flights to and from Seattle and, more recently, flights to Las Vegas, Nevada that serve locals but mostly Canadian residents from nearby Vancouver and British Columbia.

As of August, 2004, the airport is home of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's first Air and Marine Operations Center, to assist with border surveillance. Amtrak also serves Bellingham, which is the first stop in the United States for southbound trains from Vancouver, British Columbia.

As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 67,171, although a recent calculation places the city's population at 73,469 [1].

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