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Chevy Chase has a powerful if very temporary new neighbor: Vice President-elect Mike Pence.

Though he is still finishing out his term as Indiana governor while leading the president-elect’s transition team, Pence and his family have rented a 5-bedroom house in upper Northwest and seem to have moved in earlier this week, according to several news reports.

“My husband gets up, goes to the bathroom, looks out the window and he sees Mike Pence walking out the front door into one of the big vehicles,” a neighbor told WJLA, which reports that the five-bedroom, 2,500 square foot house rents for $6,000 a month.

A Secret Service officer on site told a resident that they were protecting Pence, the Washington Post reports. Pence and his wife, Karen, will move into the Naval Observatory once he takes office.

Meanwhile, the president-elect is causing a traffic nightmare for midtown Manhattan and costing taxpayers millions along the way. His wife and youngest son plan to stay in New York even after the inauguration.

Donald Trump did slightly better in Chevy Chase than the rest of the District, with 6.5 percent of the precinct’s vote (citywide, Trump got a mere 4 percent of the vote).

“Most of the people in the neighborhood would not pick him to be our neighbor, politically speaking,” neighbor Joanna Pratt told WJLA. “We do want to be neighborly regardless of our beliefs.”