I have a hierarchy that I'd like to query with LinqToSql:

Country -> Region -> City -> ZipCode

Each entity holds both a reference to it's parent (eg. Region.Country) and a collection of it's children (eg. Region.Cities).

I'd like to eager load each entity's parent along with Countries and Regions but lazy load cities and zip codes.

To complicate things, each entity is being localized before being projected in to the model. So Country.Name changes based on the language.

Here's some snippets of what I have so far:

```
public IQueryable<Country> ListCountries()
{
  return ProjectCountry(dataContext.GetTable<ec_Country>());
}

private IQueryable<Country> ProjectCountry(IQueryable<ec_Country> query)
{
  var result = from country in query
  join localized in dataContext.GetTable<ec_CountryLocalization>() on country.CountryID equals localized.CountryID
  let regions = GetRegions(country.CountryID)
  where localized.StatusID == 4 && localized.WebSiteID == this.webSiteID
  select new Country(country.CountryID) {
    CreatedDate = country.CreatedDate,
    IsDeleted = country.IsDeleted,
    IsoCode = country.IsoCode,
    Name = country.Name,
    Regions = new LazyList<Region>(regions),
    Text = localized.Text,
    Title = localized.Title,
    UrlKey = country.UrlKey
  };

  return result;
}

private IQueryable<Region> GetRegions(Int32 countryID)
{
  var query = from r in dataContext.GetTable<ec_Region>()
  where r.CountryID == countryID
  orderby r.Name
  select r;

  return ProjectRegion(query);
}

private IQueryable<Region> ProjectRegion(IQueryable<ec_Region> query)
{
  var result = from region in query
  join localized in dataContext.GetTable<ec_RegionLocalization>() on region.RegionID equals localized.RegionID
  join country in ListCountries() on region.CountryID equals country.CountryID
  let cities = GetCities(region.RegionID)
  select new Region(region.RegionID) {
    Cities = new LazyList<City>(cities),
    Country = country,
    CountryID = region.CountryID,
    CreatedDate = region.CreatedDate,
    IsDeleted = region.IsDeleted,
    IsoCode = region.IsoCode,
    Name = region.Name,
    Text = localized.Text,
    Title = localized.Title,
    UrlKey = region.UrlKey
  };

  return result;
}

```

... etc.

```
[TestMethod]
public void DataProvider_Correctly_Projects_Country_Spike()
{
  // Act
  Country country = dataProvider.GetCountry(1);

  // Assert
  Assert.IsNotNull(country);
  Assert.IsFalse(String.IsNullOrEmpty(country.Description));
  Assert.IsTrue(country.Regions.Count > 0);
}

```

The test fails with:

System.NotSupportedException: Method 'System.Linq.IQueryable`1[Beeline.EducationCompass.Model.Region] GetRegions(Int32)' has no supported translation to SQL.

How would you recommend I go about this? Would it be simpler (or possible) if each level of the hierarchy was in the same table instead of separate ones?