Sentences with phrase «years living in a city»

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Besides Oakland residents arrested within the city for pot crimes dating back to 1996, the permits are available to residents living at least 10 of the past 20 years in police beats torn apart by the war on drugs.

«I'm working to create a space where it feels easy to include and imagine black girls and make black girls like me the main characters of our lives,» Dias said at Forbes» Women Summit in New York City last year.

GOBankingRates estimates the cost of living comfortably in San Francisco at $ 119,570 — outpacing every other city on the list by $ 30,000 a year or more.

The feedback loop of the city making itself attractive to start - ups and start - ups helping to make the city attractive to talented young people (who in turn create more businesses that attract more young people) is only getting started, but Robinson says he can already see the effects both in terms of the area's legitimacy — «people are saying, «hey, I would actually invest here or I would start my business here» as opposed to 10 years ago where people would avoid the city at all costs» — and quality of life for young people.

To find out where you could live by the 50/30/20 plan on $ 50,000 or less a year — that's take - home pay, not pre-tax income — GOBankingRates examined the following monthly expenses for a single person in 270 cities:

After living in New York City for the past three years, I've figured out how to navigate the city on the cheap, but I've also shelled out more than I'm proud of on omelettes and mimoCity for the past three years, I've figured out how to navigate the city on the cheap, but I've also shelled out more than I'm proud of on omelettes and mimocity on the cheap, but I've also shelled out more than I'm proud of on omelettes and mimosas.

In February, Amazon said that it would offer free, two - hour Whole Foods deliveries to Prime customers who live in Austin, Cincinnati, Dallas, and Virginia Beach, with the promise of more cities to come during the yeaIn February, Amazon said that it would offer free, two - hour Whole Foods deliveries to Prime customers who live in Austin, Cincinnati, Dallas, and Virginia Beach, with the promise of more cities to come during the yeain Austin, Cincinnati, Dallas, and Virginia Beach, with the promise of more cities to come during the year.

Sure, living in the City of Angels is expensive, but it comes with the opportunity to be surrounded by like - minded people — and of course, excellent weather year - round.

Beyond saving lives, consider the money saved (traffic accidents cause $ 500 billion in economic damage worldwide each year), the benefits to cities (parking lots become green spaces), the increases in productivity (commuters can work in transit; truckers can sleep without pulling over), and improvements in accessibility (the elderly, blind, and disabled get affordable robot chauffeurs!).

According to global consulting firm Mercer's 2015 cost of living ranking, Shanghai has the sixth - highest cost of living in the world this year, up four places from last year; Beijing has the seventh - highest, also up four places, and Shenzhen and Guangzhou are at 14th and 15th most expensive, both up a number of places from 2014 — making all those cities more expensive than New York City.

Today, Detroit has 700,000 residents, far fewer than the almost 1 million people who called the Motor City home more than 90 years ago in 1920 and half the 1.6 million people who lived there in 1940, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.

In recent years, polls and studies have put Canada and our cities at or near the top of places to get an education, establish a business, raise a family and live a long, healthy life.

Life Is Good has always been a strong presence in resorts, beach towns, and other destination areas; now it is expanding into cities and communities where people shop year - round.

Nextdoor launched a partnership with Oakland last year, calling the relationship «especially meaningful» because so many staff lived in the Bay Area city.

The 34 - year - old comedian is still living in a small apartment in New York City.

Summary:» «Sweetbitter» tells the story of Tess (Ella Purnell), a 22 - year - old who arrives in New York City ready to pursue a new life.

He criticized states for kicking the can down the road, living beyond their means year after year in a «never - ending sense of crisis» that results in «stop - and - go funding of vital programs,» such as those for infrastructure, education, pensions and city and county services.

Citizens in major Indian cities can see their life expectancy drop by two years amid environmental problems like air pollution, but HTT can help resolve that, Gresta said.

You stated your interest in a city where you can grow your company to 50,000 employees over the next 20 years, a home base that can hold your interest... a strong sense of place, a rich cultural life, great transit systems, smart young people and plenty of infrastructure - ready land that is close to both the business center and top universities... density, walkability, and diversity... some of the nation's finest universities... tech - savvy millennials... Philadelphia, the birthplace of America, offers all of these desirable attributes at a more affordable cost.

Women in Need (Win) has provided safe housing, critical services, and groundbreaking programs to help homeless women and their children rebuild their lives in New York City for more than 33 years.

(Win) has provided safe housing, critical services, and groundbreaking programs to help homeless women and their children rebuild their lives in New York City for more than 33 years.

None of us have to live in expensive cities such as San Francisco, New York, Honolulu or Los Angeles during our non-working years either.

The extent of Amazon's responsibility is debatable, given that other cities with large, younger workforces have seen dramatic rent and cost - of - living increases in recent years, including Washington D.C..

I live in the Seattle area but 5 years ago decided to buy a rental in a midwestern city I used to lived in.

In recent years, Forbes Magazine named the town as the number one city in America in relation to cost of livinIn recent years, Forbes Magazine named the town as the number one city in America in relation to cost of livinin America in relation to cost of livinin relation to cost of living.

There is a grave environmental crisis in air quality (life expectancy in polluted northern cities is five and a half years lower than in the cleaner south), water and soil (one survey showed that 10 per cent of arable land was unsafe to grow crops on).

Mr Fawcett says, «There has been increased interest this year in city living with an upturn in inquiries for Rome, Venice, Milan and Florence.

«We pay $ 270 per person per year, and it covers us for a variety of ailments,» says International Living Malaysia Correspondent Keith Hockton, who lives with his wife Lisa in the city of George Town on the island of Penang.

Shortly after, she lived in Mexico for two years, first teaching TESL and TOEFL classes to adults in Mexico City and then owning a Mexican restaurant in Chiapas with her soon - to - be husband.

She's 30 years old, lives in New York City, and works in her family's business.

«Debt is saddling a generation, particularly the older end of this generation,» said Douglas Boneparth, a 30 - year - old certified financial planner with Life and Wealth Planning in New York City.

There are a mountain of hidden costs — from closing fees to taxes — that can add up to more than $ 9,000 each year, real estate marketplace Zillow estimates — and that number will only jump if you live in a major US city.

Although Ashley did spend a four year stint on the East Coast while obtaining her undergraduate degree at Bucknell University, she moved back to Chicago shortly after graduation and has lived in the city ever since.

We live in Germany, spending roughly 60k per year, including the rent for a 1000 square feet apartment in a good location (but in a rather small city, only 400k people), a nice car and going on vacations for the full five weeks we have off work.

Tara Leigh Cobble is a full - time singer / songwriter who lives in New York City during the 65 days per year that she's not touring.

It includes a chapter on domestic life that reviews how and where single men lived; a chapter on associations such as the YMCA and YMHA, which sprang up in these years to offer support, wholesome company, and structure to bachelor life in the city; a chapter on bachelor - frequented institutions (a rather more dignified term than most readers would choose) such as the saloon, the pool and dance halls, and the barber shops.

Natasha, some years ago, when we lived in another city, we visited the church our friend and his family attended.

Once this congregation was group of German immigrants living in what was then farmland across the river from New York City» that was over a hundred years ago» and the primary goal seemed simply to keep the struggling congregation from folding, at another time the chief task seemed racial integration, at another outreach into the community, at another service to the community and social action, at another learning to worship God in Spanish.

This reminds me of the 10 years I lived in New York City and lived in rented apartments.

New teachers in Chicago earn $ 50,000 per year, but given the high cost of living in the city, that salary means she's just getting by.

It's a small programme sofar, with only three thousand families enrolled in a city that has more than two million people living below the official poverty line — a line above what was called middle - class sixty years ago.

Join First Things editor R. R. Reno, veteran civil rights activist John M. Perkins, Professor Robert P. George of Princeton University, and others at the Union League Club in New York City to honor the life of Plough author Johann Christoph Arnold, who died earlier this year.

Written from Jerusalem: Walking through the narrow, winding streets of Jerusalem's Old City on my first visit here in fifteen years, I was powerfully struck once again by the grittiness of Christianity, the palpable connection between the faith and the quotidian realities of life.

For the past few years I have lived in an urban slum community on the outskirts of Phnom Penh, the capital city of Cambodia.

His base salary is $ 1 million, but this year, he's giving all of his game checks away to help kids in cities he's lived in.

A few years ago, demographers announced that for the first time in recorded history the majority of the human race lives in cities.

Jerusalem was taken by Christian forces at the end of the First Crusade in 1099, but Western control of the city was short - lived — lasting only about 90 years — and Muslims consistently routed the crusaders in the decades and centuries to follow.

You know, please rest your conscience here as you read I am not an authority AT ALL as youll come to see, My lord has pulled me out of church the holy spirit filled church where I recieved Christ, and told me to visit ALL churches, oh and by the way 6 years ago The Lord asked me to open an out reach food pantry and safe haven for the needy, in the city that we live in, anyway this journey was humbling, God always shows me I am the stinker, that its my flesh that wars against the spirit, So many people are worried about satan, and demons or bad freinds or family or other religions, Yeah it makes you wonder 1st is it the same bible Im reading Jesus said it is finished!

My 86 year old great uncle who has been with the same man happily for 40 years, a good deal of the time as mayor of a decent sized city (no, not in the backwater US) has had one of the greatest, happiest lives I know.

In more recent years, teenagers have taken the lead in Ferguson, New York City and Cleveland as the public face of Black Lives Matter, and were promptly dismissed as angry black youthIn more recent years, teenagers have taken the lead in Ferguson, New York City and Cleveland as the public face of Black Lives Matter, and were promptly dismissed as angry black youthin Ferguson, New York City and Cleveland as the public face of Black Lives Matter, and were promptly dismissed as angry black youths.