It may not be paradise now (especially if it is a dusty and desolate corner of Iraq).
The traffic can be daunting around major cities, but there are some remote and desolate stretches with empty beaches.
But most choose to slog unhappily on with their sham and desolate unions.
By the final chapter, the pieces of the puzzle come together, showing just how vast and desolate this kingdom is.
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But on a trek to the Bedunge Swamp with 12 armed rangers, your correspondent found a parched and desolate landscape of fear.
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It was scary and desolate, but just two years since, and he told me he could clearly see the area has got significantly better since then.
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"A hideous and desolate wilderness, " William Bradford called it.
The Libyan government is aware of the urgent need to better control its borders, but they are long and desolate -- and much of Libya's air force was destroyed during the revolution.
After crash-landing on a frozen and desolate planet, Issac will fight not only for his own survival, but for that of all mankind, against an inhospitable planet and the deadly creatures who live there.
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In addition to the chirping birds and the desolate houses here, my Shanghai comprises friends downtown and an endless stream of party nights.
The sadder and more desolate the comedy, the better Harvey liked it.
Hermit crabs are all over the atypical black sand beaches, where the sand is so dark it exudes an ominous and divinely desolate quality.
The 10km gap between Johannesburg and its main dormitory town, the former black township of Soweto, remains desolate and undeveloped.
Take a cycle or a walk down the Thames Path, a hassle free highway that takes you from the hustle and bustle of the West End out to desolate wharves and wildlife havens, finishing at Greenwich, home to one of the Olympic sites.
So on we went into an eerie Washington Square Park, full of tourists and crackheads, through an uncomfortably desolate Greenwich Village and SoHo, to a quiet TriBeCa.
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The paradoxical romance of heavy industry, the destruction of old parts of town and their replacement with desolate tracts of soul-killing state modernism, and the thrill of teeming crowds at soccer games, on beaches, and aboard ferries are all ingeniously conjured through montage sequences, set to music, that suggest the culmination of the music video.
The great red hills stand desolate and the earth has torn away like flesh.
The area was desolate and impoverished, and Lanier has speculated that the move was driven, at least in part, by fear.
Sasha and Alex left the hotel and stepped into desolate, windy Tribeca.
The central neighborhood of Midtown was long desolate and undesirable, despite being home to the High Museum of Art and the Fox Theater.
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Mr Brewer said at the age of 49 he fell in love with the girl and felt "desolate" when she ended the relationship.
The food factories now stand silent, desolate and draughty - windowpanes long shattered but not replaced - monuments to the fall of communism.
Every couple of months they pull their heads out of their monitors, stick a finger out the window and survey the desolate landscape below.
Why would Chinese citizens flock to a desolate and half-frozen wasteland in a foreign country when their own, swiftly growing, country affords many better options?
Coeur managers cut road exposure down to a 10-mile stretch by flying into and out of a desolate gravel landing strip, which they extended 700 feet and will soon pave.
The trend toward New York-style loft living is transforming many old warehouses and office buildings in what was once a desolate area, and as NPR's Luke Burbank reports, the city's newest urban pioneers are bumping against the ones who were there first, the homeless.
Neighbourhoods such as Parkhead and Shettleston are more desolate, with rows of once-grand Edwardian houses crumbling in picturesque decay, and empty lots and derelict shops a stone's throw from city-centre streets that boast the highest rents in Scotland.
The novel's conclusion is desolate, and as inevitable as Rhoda's seemingly blind leap into her own doomed marriage.
The area is still largely industrial and many streets are desolate, but the Hunters Point section is visibly changing.
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