Sentences with phrase «class suburb of»

Appelbaum found herself bidding against an unknown man from the working class suburb of Bellville.

It was there — at Mariner High School in Everett, Wash., a working - class suburb of Seattle — that Perkins got involved with Planned Parenthood for the first time.

He was deeply influenced by the working class suburb of Mexico City where he grew up in the 1960s.

«I grew up in Ilford [in Essex], and Ilford was a weird sort of town, it was a dormitory suburb but also a working class suburb of London.

Built in the 1920s upper - class suburb of County Club Estates, it was designed by architect John Platt Roberts.

I grew up in a lower - middle - class suburb of a big city, where my father worked in consulting for most of my childhood.

They became Canadian citizens five years ago and bought a three - bedroom home in a middle - class suburb of Montreal.

«When bad things happen in our family,» Jesse, an astute twelve - year - old boy from a large middle - class suburb of Los Angeles, recently told me, «my father gets blocked.

Annandale High School opened its doors in 1954 in the still - segregated school system of Fairfax County, Virginia, a burgeoning middle - class suburb of Washington, D.C..

The chilly wind whips the yellow and brown leaves around the granite gravestones at St. Paul's Cemetery in this middle - class suburb of Baltimore.

In the late 1990s, Harvard University economist, Ron Ferguson, found much the same thing in quite another setting, an upper - class suburb of Cleveland, Ohio, called Shaker Heights.

Andrew Haigh's startlingly assured 2011 film Weekend chronicled the intense connection between two young gay men over the course of a few days in a working - class suburb of London.

Here he's working in a middle - class suburb of New York, where Marlo and her husband, Drew (Ron Livingston, playing a very Ron Livingston character), are slightly overwhelmed by everything: they have two kids, one with emerging special needs, and a baby on the way, and their lives have devolved to rote routine.

He grew up in a close - knit family in a working - class suburb of Calgary, Alberta.

He grew up in a working class suburb of Dublin.

On a recent Sunday morning, worshipers packed a Pentecostal church set up on the second floor of an apartment building in a working class suburb of Havana.

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The exodus was driven primarily by the collapse of the auto industry and the mass migration of middle - class African Americans to the suburbs.

All of this puts more pressure on downtown office markets, driving tenants who can not pay class A rents into the suburbs.

Evelyn Waugh: A Life Revisitedby philip eadehenry holt, 432 pages, $ 32 Arthur Evelyn St. John Waugh was born in 1903 to upper - middle - class Anglicans who lived in a suburb of London.

Arthur Evelyn St. John Waugh was born in 1903 to upper - middle - class Anglicans who lived in a suburb of London.

The prosperous postwar economy fostered the exodus of an upwardly mobile working class from the city in search of the more genuinely American housing to be found in the suburbs, and at the same time, the entry - level skilled and semiskilled manufacturing jobs once held by project residents disappeared from the urban core.

And in the growing suburbs of Nashville, where New South mobility is bringing lots of non-Methodists into an old traditional Methodist church, another pastor reported: «Every year I try to do, after I do the confirmation class for the kids, a series of four to five weeks on United Methodist beliefs.

The «self - sufficient» family today is associated with the economic independence of «respectable» middle - class families in towns and suburbs.

It has not brought the poor to the suburbs, but it is the reason why many middle class people are suddenly poor and in need of assistance.

Black masses are celebrated in affluent suburbs — not in the areas of the working class.

My friend, Sonya, and I took a yoga class at a studio in the trendy suburb of South Yarra and she had insisted that we grab a coffee at the little cafe around the corner and a slice of «Life Loaf.»

He grew up in Justice, Ill., a working - class suburb on the fringe of Chicago, in a household headed by his stepfather, an ironworker, and his mother, a traditional homemaker.

During Splash's youth, Wauwatosa had been a small bedroom suburb on the western outskirts of Milwaukee, a quiet, tidy enclave whose middle - class affluence was as sturdy as its stone houses, as neatly clipped as its putting - green lawns, a town where men often took the streetcar to work, or else walked whistling under the elms.

A long, skinny, redheaded kid growing up in a strong Catholic middle - class home in the San Diego suburb of La Mesa.

Moments later, as I drove through the empty streets of our Cleveland suburb waiting for AP to stop grunting behind me, I finally understood what the veteran dads in my class had been talking about.

... a happily married mother of two moves from small town America to the high — class suburbs and is faced with confronting the cutthroat world of competitive parenting.

I am proud of the ways you have made service a significant part of your life: as a boy scout, an alter server at our parish, with your religious education class (making lunches for those who are less fortunate in a nearby suburb), as a member of National Junior Honor Society at Keller, and volunteering with the Summer Learning Program at our neighborhood library.

We are a middle class family, living in middle America, right in the middle of the suburbs.

BirthFit Chicago (multiple locations in Chicago and suburbs) BirthFit offers a variety of classes for pregnancy and postpartum women.

Classes that he took at Harvard Extension School while growing up in the Boston suburbs translated into college credits, and he graduated from Berklee College of Music in just two - and - a-half years, his mother said.

On the housing segregation by income and class, I would much prefer to use analogies with the Parisian suburbs, gated communities, and (perhaps over-dramatically) the social stratification of Dickensian London, or (most accurately) the electoral gerrymandering of Shirley Porter.

Turnout for the vote was 28 %, higher than for the referendum in May that decided to create the new post of mayor, but the number of voters coming out varied greatly between the leafy suburbs and working class areas.

He's raised taxes and spending in Rochester, mismanaged every development project proposed for that dying city, and continued the process of pushing the middle class and businesses out to the suburbs.

Since New York City public schools would not guarantee him an education without placing him in special education classes, his family bought a home in the Long Island suburb of Hempstead so that he could attend mainstream classes there.

Then there are all of the growing middle - class families who don't want to go to the suburbs.

The New York Daily News published a profile of the Chappaqua Summer Scholarship Program - a program where Bronx high school students spend July taking classes and living with a host family in the suburbs.

Paladino and Rep. Chris Collins, who represents the Buffalo suburbs and was the first sitting member of Congress to publicly back Trump, made the case that Trump would expand the GOP's base of support and would have the gravitas to stand up for America in international relations and against Washington's elected class.

More than three - quarters of New Yorkers — and 96 % downstate — believe it's important for the city and surrounding suburbs to have a world - class transit system.

They will vote on May 20 and will likely determine the next member of Congress from the heavily Democratic district, which begins in the working - class segment of northeast Philadelphia and fans out into the wealthy Montgomery County suburbs.

The migration of middle - class whites to the suburbs left the very poor in the city, and they «found themselves surrounded by more poor people,» Semuels writes.

Another was a $ 6 billion, three - year property tax relief plan that would focus new aid on middle - class homeowners, granting an average of $ 920 in relief for such families in the New York suburbs and an average of $ 512 upstate.

«State and local deductibility is a dagger aimed at the heart of New York and particularly of so many of our middle class residents,» Schumer said during a press conference with Cuomo on the front lawn of a home in the suburbs of Albany.

The vibrant middle class that once defined urban life moved to the suburbs or exurbs long ago and, with the notable exception of New York City, an influx of well - educated young professionals has not made up for that exodus.

McMahon also ran the numbers for a typical upstate middle class family, choosing the Albany suburb of Latham, where the median income is around $ 83,000.

I walked across town into Carlton (in the constituency) yesterday as a matter of fact, and it is certainly looking like the more tired, faded edge - of - conurbation territory which once would've been lower middle - class / aspirational working - class Tory heartland but is now very much more like an inner suburb of Nottingham in character (and psephology).