Sentences with phrase «with ramshackle housing»

Yes, there are some areas with ramshackle housing and slow - moving canals, but Belize City also has stately colonial - era homes, lively shopping districts, beachfront amusement parks, and a flotilla of graceful sailboats.

Not exact matches

He says this matter - of - factly as you begin walking through a scrubby field to an old white farm house, ramshackled and sagging, in need of paint, but generously proportioned and graced with a wraparound veranda.

Perhaps 10 years ago, the scenario had been what i imagined, with men swooping in, and women keen to swap the hard grind of poverty - stricken ukraine for a new life in the us, even if it was a ramshackle house in a north dakotan town or a sleepy midwestern farm, rather than a manhattan penthouse or la beachfront home.

Unfortunately, he buys his home with his heart, not his head, and winds up with dilapidated, ramshackle house that, in the long run is cheaper to tear down and build over.

When her latest boyfriend Warren (Troy Skog) is shipped off to jail for cultivating marijuana and their house becomes an off - limits crime scene, Joleen uproots with her daughter Tera (Anna Sophia - Robb) to the ramshackle apartment of her younger brother, James (Nick Stahl).

Deadline reports that Enos is set to play Vicki Hutcheson, a mother with an eight - year - old boy who lives in a ramshackle house in West Memphis.

I thought about it even more during Black Panther, his globe - trotting Marvel superhero extravaganza that nonetheless begins and ends with sad, streetwise children talking smack on an Oakland housing project's ramshackle basketball court.

Trapped in a ramshackle suburban house with leaking pipes, she's trying to bring up her kids while ex-husband and nightclub entertainer Tony (Edgar Ramirez) lives in the basement and her neurotic mother Terry (Virginia Madsen) permanently occupies one bedroom, where she watches TV soaps 24/7 (Joy's family hell, pictured above).

Another aspect of my experiences growing up that you'll see reflected in the book is the sharp dichotomy between the haves and haves - not - the town that's booming with development while just on the other side of the forest there's a village that is crushingly poor; or the skyscrapers going up in full view of ramshackle houses.

Domenica Ruta grew up in Danvers, Massachusetts, in a ramshackle, rundown, trash - filled house with her mother, a drug dealer and user who raised Domenica on a steady diet of Oxycontin.

It's a slightly ramshackle area yet sufficiently scenic with waterfront kampung houses to the east and jungle to the mountainous west.

In 2003 they bought a ramshackle, eleven - bedroom Victorian mansion in Fleischmanns, New York, painted it black, and decorated it like a haunted house with faux taxidermy and gothic furniture.

Showcased in the documentary that shares the home's name, the Beales lived their lives out in the isolated, ramshackle house along with three dozen cats, a couple of raccoons in the attic, and zero litter boxes.