Trending Towards Urban Living
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A growing migration out of the suburbs is leading to higher demand for urban properties
High fuel prices and walkability are key factors in many downtown buyers’ decision.
The quintessential American dream used to include a suburban house with big yard, but homebuyers are increasingly dreaming of a walkable urban lifestyle along with their dog and two kids.
Flight from urban areas began after World War II, when thousands of returning soldiers and their young families needed inexpensive housing. In Leviitown, an early Long Island, N.Y., suburb, developers built more than 17,000 virtually identical Cape Cods. The development served as a model for later ‘burbs, and the middle class migration out of the city continued until a peak in the 1980s. Read the rest of this entry »
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Top 10 Expert Tips for Buying a Luxury Home
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From a brand-new Trump condo and a historic Newport estate to a golf course community in the South, there’s a plethora of choices in high-end homes. Consider these tips from luxury home market pros before buying your dream home.
1. Learn the search process.
“Many luxury homes go unlisted to protect a seller’s privacy. These properties are often found through the Realtor’s personal connections as opposed to the MLS.” Virginia Cook, Virginia Cook Realtors, Dallas
“You may need to go to more online sources as not everything is on the large search engines.” Ronald Phipps, Phipps Realty, Warwick, R.I.
2. Go beyond the photos. Read the rest of this entry »
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Perspective Health and Urban Living
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Christopher Dye
The majority of people now live in urban areas and will do so for the foreseeable future. As a force in the demographic and health transition, urbanization is associated with falling birth and death rates and with the shift in burden of illness from acute childhood infections to chronic, noncommunicable diseases of adults.
Mayan calendar and 2012 prophecy. The third probable scenario
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Graves for the Living; Lives for the Dead
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Have you met a person who has given up on life and is just marking time until their death? They are joyless, without light and come across as bumps of flesh and bone. I’m not talking about the sick or the elderly. I’m talking about the ordinary person who just walks through life with no hope except that it will all end soon.
Then there are those who are obviously wholly dead on the inside, yet they continue to creep into our lives pretending to be human while proclaiming the honor of their lives. We know they are dead, but waking, and they are completely unaware of their deaths. Read the rest of this entry »
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