Sentences with phrase «upper class neighborhoods»

Having done so, I weighed the odds of an infected mosquito flying it's maximum three hundred yard range in order to feast on my house - dogs when a.) there are no loose dogs in my country club neighborhood, and b.) my dogs are sold to people in upper class neighborhoods where there is no medically - deprived dog population.

Of course you can still rent out properties in upper class neighborhoods.

The plot of the film is deceptively simple: Elizabeth and Tony Jordan (played by Priscilla Shirer and T.C. Stallings), appear to have it all — living in an upper class neighborhood with their daughter Danielle (Alena Pitts), money is rolling in from Tony's job as a successful pharmaceutical salesman.

Yes, it is a shame when the denomination sells the property, pulls the money out of the neighborhood and often puts it into property in the newest upscale upper class neighborhood across town.

Not exact matches

So after real estate imploded and bottomed out, I bought a nice house in an upper middle class neighborhood with great schools.

I recently saw a «for sale» in an upper - middle class neighborhood in Denver which advertised, «no money down, lender on site.»

Large Apartments — These buildings are the larger, nicer complexes you see all around the country, often times in upper - middle class neighborhoods in the suburbs.

«All families in my upper middle - class neighborhood regularly enjoy a living standard better than that achieved by John D. Rockefeller Sr. at the time of my birth.

It is not uncommon for middle - and upper - class Americans to seek out diverse neighborhoods and to worry aloud that their children are not encountering enough people from other races.

I know of many groups who are very exclusive, meaning they exclude anyone who does not meet their standards, such as you need to be at least upper middle class, white and live in a good neighborhood to be part of the group.

«In white neighborhoods — middle - class, upper - class ones like this one — everybody has the pool in the back, the grill in the back,» he said.

Charlie Himmelstein was 19, lived in an upper - middle class neighborhood in Brooklyn, a nursery school teacher and college dropout, when he lost in the novice division of the New York Golden Gloves.

You know, kids enter kindergarten in Harlem behind their peers in middle - class and upper - middle - class neighborhoods in the city.

Many schools in middle to upper - middle class neighborhoods have high enough F&R eligibility that they have to participate in NSLP.

Ms. Doyle Melton is attractive and slender, lives in an upper middle class neighborhood, has a husband (although they are now separated), three good - looking children and more - than - adequate finances.

On a sunny day in April, the K - 8 school looks more like a country club nestled at the edge of a wilderness area and upper - middle - class residential neighborhood than a public school.

Murray emphasizes in particular the degree to which the better educated and professional have concentrated in certain neighborhoods, and how opportunities for the upper middle class of college - goers to interact with and know neighbors of lower classes have declined.

The reaction of the principal in a gentrifying neighborhood's school to the arrival of more - demanding parents largely determined whether the white, upper - middle - class families stayed at the school in spite of the yelling and other incidents, or left.

The cultural differences between the newcomers and the old - timers in gentrifying neighborhoods can be easily, though inadequately, summarized: white, upper - middle - class families prefer a progressive and discursive style of interaction with their children, both at home and in school, and lower - income, nonwhite families prefer a traditional or authoritarian style of interaction with their children in these same venues.

Opting out of state tests has made waves for the last couple of years as mostly White parents in mostly upper - middle class neighborhoods rallied students to opt - out of state tests.

In contrast, the second suburban school is located in a predominantly upper - class neighborhood, and the majority of students who participated in curriculum activities were high - achieving and designated as gifted.

In upper - middle - class and wealthy neighborhoods, in particular, they are too busy doing other things, like playing sports, studying, and following a full schedule of activities booked by their parents.

The empirical research indicates that gentrification can result in the restructuring of urban neighborhoods through the displacement of low - income residents of color, the loss of their culture and institutions, and the influx of middle to upper - class whites.

In 1982, Kathleen Wilcox did a comparative ethnographic study of a classroom in a lower - middle - class neighborhood and an upper - middle - class neighborhood classroom.

New York city district administrators, therefore, now face the challenge of drawing and redrawing school zones as they try to find a balance between this intense segregation in these schools, the influx of white middle and upper - class families as gentrifiers, and the low - income minority families already in the neighborhood.

Some New York City neighborhoods are currently undergoing dramatic demographic shifts as white middle and upper - class families move back into the city, essentially a reversal of the white flight that occurred in the early 1950s in an attempt to escape the growing populations of African Americans in the cities (Burns Stillman 2012).

The financial freedom in migrating to more accepting locations and locating housing accepting of different lifestyles further advantages middle - and upper - class queer populations and motivates them to develop a social and political queer identity in the neighborhood.

More specifically, Perez finds that elementary schools in middle and upper middle class neighborhoods such as the Upper East Side of Manhattan had more access to the books than areas such as Spanish Harlem where the books were distributed late into the application process and sometimes Spanish - language versions were never distributed (Perez 398).

Owning homes in upper - middle class black neighborhoods puts families in a unique situation where they can begin to accumulate wealth, but where the racial composition of the neighborhood puts them at a disadvantage compared to black families in majority white neighborhoods.

We can see this practice being carried out by white middle and upper - middle class families who are gentrifying neighborhoods throughout Brooklyn and Manhattan.

This policy memo fails to address the nuances of integration and segregation when black middle and upper - class families are also part of the gentrifying families in these neighborhoods.

Additionally, many of these parents do not have the same privilege of moving outside of their neighborhoods if their public schools are not performing at a level deemed to be «good» nor do they have the networks, resources, or time that many middle and upper - class families have to research better choices that are available to them (Hannah - Jones 2016).

White students, especially those previously from the schools in upper - class white neighborhoods, felt that they were being dumbed down to accommodate black students.

The Mustang, introduced April 17, 1964, as a mid-1964 model, always has seemed to sell better in wine - and - cheese neighborhoods, but Ford lately has been trying to aim it toward America's upper - middle class.

In 1979 California Avenue, in Chicago's West Rogers Park neighborhood, separates the upper - middle - class Jewish families from the mostly middle - class Jewish residents on the east of the divide.

We live in an upper middle class neighborhood and co-signed for his student loan.

The location is a safe growing upper middle class neighborhood with a Panera, Chipotle, LA Fitness, and new apartments one block away.

These upper - class neighborhoods are known for being some of the richest — and safest — neighborhoods in the city.

It's a mostly residential, upper middle class neighborhood.

Regarding the latter, Mourão's incorporation of quotidian items is more than an aesthetic decision; these elements offer social commentary and satirize living conditions in some of Brazil's urban centers, where upper - and middle - class families reside in gated neighborhoods, fenced off from the larger community.

SAN FRANCISCO LARRY SULTAN SAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART The San Fernando Valley, the collection of middle - and upper - middle - class neighborhoods and industrial parks that sprawls along the...

Present day, Whole Foods has more than 450 stores in primarily upper - middle class neighborhoods — often with little space for expansion.

Like I said, I certainly don't want to discriminate against anyone, but at the same time I have some investments in upper - middle - class neighborhoods and the neighbors would be quite angry with me if I allowed a violent felon or some other horrible crime to move next door to them.

An expansion of new oil and gas drilling technology known as «fracking» is prompting more industrial activity inside middle and upper - middle - class residential neighborhoods, Reuters reports.

There I was, a guy who owned a house back in 1990 in St. Louis, and Southwestern Bell had just moved its headquarters to Texas so there were a lot of people in the middle - to upper - class neighborhoods leaving the city.