Elegant way of reading a child property of an object

Question

Say you are trying to read this property

var town = Staff.HomeAddress.Postcode.Town;

Somewhere along the chain a null could exist. What wo

Answer 1

How often do you expect a null? If (and only if) it will be infrequent, I would use

try
{
    var town = staff.HomeAddress.Postcode.Town;
    // stuff to do if we could get the town
}
catch (NullReferenceException)
{
    // stuff to do if there is a null along the way
}