Buying farmland on the edge of big cities would have been an even better play.
Energy and other costs of maintaining farms in big cities also are likely to be higher.
In big cities, finding a pharmacist to sell Plan B is a simple matter.
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Consumer surveys show that location near big cities has become a greater priority now than price.
Convention centers are springing up everywhere, in big cities (Denver, Portland, Ore.) and small (Schaumburg, Ill.).
But data show this summer's swings aren't evenly distributed: Big cities show the big drops.
For the best prices, head inland and away from the big cities and towns.
Although the ratio is higher in big cities, we believe it reflects the supply shortage.
There's little question our big cities are crucial to getting the economy growing again.
We heard it not that long ago in the big cities of this country.
There are signs, small but visible, that outside the big cities separation is dwindling.
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And outside the big cities, there have been new visitor centres at Culloden and Alloway.
Brazilians in the big cities are shopping like Americans and paying three times for it.
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British blacks are disproportionately young and tend to live in big cities, which are heavily policed.
Disney repeatedly celebrated the virtues of small towns against big cities, little firms against big businesses.
The crime rate in parts of the big cities such as Johannesburg is well known.
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The ring roads that roar around Mexico's big cities have speed limits of up to 80kph.
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As big cities have welcomed growth in their centres, many small towns have resisted it.
As a crosscheck, the economists also used the 2005 Urban Labour Survey of five big cities.
In continental Europe, especially Germany and Austria, firemen are mostly volunteers outside the big cities.
He told me getting rid of London would be a fantastic challenge to big cities like Birmingham.
Most physicians in the U.S. are educated on the coasts and do their residencies in big cities.
Do you see more maker businesses, more small manufacturer types growing in big cities or rural America?
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Yorkshire's two big cities, Leeds and Sheffield, vied for more than a century to be top dog.
Nonpharmaceutical interventions, or NPIs, also proved effective in big cities such as New York, according to Markel.
Life for China's tens of millions of homosexuals has improved markedly since then, especially in big cities.
It is doing badly in the municipal campaign for some big cities, but largely for local reasons.
Even in wealthy neighbourhoods mortality rates are 15% higher than in similar districts of other big cities.
And we know these schools are often found in rural areas or in big cities like Miami.
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In a lot of big cities these days, whites, particularly liberal whites, are becoming the swing vote.
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