Sentences with phrase «middle life crisis»

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Respondents to the Palo Alto Weekly's survey cited the area's chronic housing crisis and high cost of living as reasons for identifying as middle - class instead of upper - class.

For now let me say this: the worst time to make big life decisions and changes is in the middle of a crisis.

[67] In January 2014 Miliband extended the concept of reform to include the «big five» banks, in addition to the «big six» utility companies, and discussed the impact of the cost - of - living on the «squeezed middle» saying «the current cost - of - living crisis is not just about people on tax credits, zero - hour contracts and the minimum wage.

Whether we're talking about the «squeezed middle», the «cost - of - living crisis» or cutting the «biggest budget deficit in our peacetime history», it's fair to say that many Brits will be feeling pretty taxed already by the time the chancellor stands up to deliver his budget speech on Wednesday.

«Even if the rent increases ultimately approved are at the low end of the proposed ranges,» Nadler said, «I have many serious concerns about what this decision would mean for the more than 1 million low - and middle - income rent - stabilized residents of New York City who are already facing a crisis of affordability and cost - of - living increases.»

Miliband was in the middle of a campaign visit to highlight what he called the «cost of living crisis» presided over by the government.

«We support Obasanjo for his timely intervention because at a time of national crisis and with people losing their lives across the Middle Belt and Southern Nigeria, anybody discussing partisan politics under such an atmosphere of mass misery is not fit to be regarded as a human being talk more, a leader.

Film - makers and advertisers specialise in admiring portrayals of teens and twenty - somethings, but those in the middle decades of their lives are usually depicted as doing little more than serving time between the turbulence of youth and the decline of old age — and occasionally being tipped into crisis by the sheer ennui of their mundane existence.

I recently turned 30 and found myself in the middle of a total life crisis, uh - I mean opportunity for growth.

Your go through extremes in your sexual life — you have too much or too little sex.Too much sex or too little sex and even complete withdrawal from having sex in some cases, is also another sign that you are going through a middle age crisis in your over 40 dating and relationships.

«Loosely based on British author and film director Dennis Potter's 1986 novel «Ticket to Ride», Secret Friends follows the life of John (Alan Bates), a middle - aged wildflower illustrator in the throes of an identity crisis.

The family dramedy stars Ben Stiller as a middle - aged man working for a non-profit who suffers something of a mid-life crisis as his musical prodigy son (Austin Abrams) begins applying to colleges to start his own life.

Love Is Strange (Ira Sachs, 2014) Real gay lives on screen in a comedy about the contemporary middle class housing crisis.

Speaking of lip service, the film offers a glimmer of hope that it might address real - life issues by referencing the job crisis faced by technology - challenged middle - aged people, and then later acknowledging the often bleak prospects even for the brightest and most ambitious college graduates in today's job market.

Filmmaker Daphne Matziaraki follows a day in the life of Kyriakos Papadopoulos, a captain in the Greek coast guard who is caught in the middle of the refugee crisis in which Europe is embroiled.

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His cuts have hurt middle - class and poor schools across the state, but despite the crisis, the Philadelphia school district has attracted a new generation of middle - class families eschewing the suburbs for city life — a diverse constituency that state politicians will find it far more difficult to ignore, at least in the long term.

We know about an investing strategy that beats Buy - and - Hold in 102 out of 110 time - periods, an investing strategy that permits us to obtain far higher returns at dramatically less risk, an investing strategy that permits us all to retire years sooner and that would bring us out of this economic crisis if we could share it with millions of middle - class investors (if people could switch to an investment strategy that would put their retirement plans back on track, they would feel free to start spending again and businesses could start hiring again), and our first reaction is to come up with convoluted arguments as to why the best thing to do is to AVOID learning more about it and to AVOID getting the word out to the millions of middle - class people whose lives we have destroyed with our promotion of Buy - and - Hold.

Firewatch throws players into the existential crisis of protagonist Henry, a middle - aged man looking to restart his life as a park ranger in a national forest.

Amid murmurs that the economic crisis was hurting midmarket galleries — an instance of art imitating life, with talk of the 1 percent and a dying middle class — the gallery was doing well, usually finding collectors for two - thirds of the works in each of its exhibitions and selling out the gallery's swan - song presentation of paintings by the Iranian - born artist Marjane Satrapi.

Are you in the middle of a life transition or a crisis and need someone to talk with to sort things through?»

«He spends a great deal of time mentoring youth in career decisions, family crises, and life skills, and has kept many young boys away from trouble,» says Daniel B. Sutherland IV, district executive, Boy Scouts of America, Middle Tennessee Council.