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'''Air-Conditioner Colonies''' (Æonaran: ''Asxathuatoriaxerka'', ''Thuatuosartha'') - {{wp|Exurban}} and {{wp|suburban}} developments built during the island's post-Reunification economic resurgence from the late 1990s onward. Air conditioner colonies consist mostly of single-family {{wp|tract housing}}, sometimes with a few townhome blocks. They are stereotypically inhabited by recent middle-class arrivals from the colder climes of Great Kirav or the Overseas Regions, especially retirees and empty-nesters, though in reality many Æonara-born people and families with children live there as well. Many exurban AC colonies include a small commercial district for grocery shopping and other basic services, and offer substantial community amenities.

'''Quartering Blocks''' (''Sitnaram'') - Settlements built in the 1930s-50s AD to house the military evacuees - Federalist soldiers and other servicemen who had retreated from the Mainland - along with their families. Intended as a temporary measure, the quartering blocks were hastily constructed according to prefabricated military housing models, and scattered across Æonara<ref>A smaller number of quartering blocks can also be found in [[Atrassica]] and in Sarolasta's [[Leviti|Leviti State]].</ref> wherever land was readily available. However, as the Sunderance wore on, they solidified into permanent settlements and developed local cultures distinct from their surrounding areas, and most are now multigenerational. Quartering blocks are no longer necessarily located near centres of employment, and many residents, particularly older persons, survive off of military pensions and other government benefits. Most residents have been granted intergenerational tenure in their homes, many of which are overcrowded, but most housing units remain owned by the government, which in subsequent decades up to the present day has used vacant units to quarter disabled veterans and the dependents of military casualties as some of the original residents have become upwardly mobile and moved out.

'''Exits''' - {{wp|Periurban}} settlement patterns created by [[Æonara#Land_Reform|land reform policies]] of the [[Kiravian Remnant]]. Exits generally formed from the dispersal of farming families out of '''old villages''' when land reform programmes gave them the rights to live and work on their own nearby farms. These old village centres evolved into local commercial and service centres, and some located on the outskirts of major metropolitan areas have prospered as hubs serving AC colonies and other exurban communities.

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