Some people love cities, with the diversity, opportunity, and fast pace of life it brings.
When Mayor Keith Lambert took office seven years ago the pace of life was slow.
This attitude accompanies a slower pace of life that can take some getting used to, particularly for Americans, she added.
The pace of life here is bucolic and unhurried, and four days can easily turn into a week.
Its strong sense of community and laid-back pace of life also make it an ideal place to escape.
As the pace of life has accelerated, using a mobile is a great way to manage your life while on the move.
It's not remote - just two short ferry trips to cross the bay - but the pace of life soon slows.
We stop monitoring our watches and our email accounts, and relax into an island pace of life all but unchanged for centuries.
He said the original research showed there was a higher risk of heart disease in cities which had a fast pace of life.
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The pace of life is accelerating, and the nature of communities is changing: they are sorting and shifting, becoming less geography-based and more virtually-based.
But Debbie Lear who was visiting for the day from the Forest of Dean agreed with the calmer pace of life offered in the city.
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For visitors and locals who want to enjoy a different pace of life, here are a few ways to get away from the Big Apple in three hours or less.
Rates of smoking are relatively low, mid-day naps are the norm, the pace of life is slow and people socialise frequently with friends and family, drinking moderate amounts of wine.
Between the clogged arteries of the main thoroughfares, Mexico City is a mosaic of neighbourhoods where the pace of life often seems rooted in another era when the air was clear.
It is widely thought that the unruffled pace of life in Tahiti prompted sailors on the British Royal Navy ship HMS Bounty to mutiny against their commanding officer, William Bligh, who was accused of mistreating his crew, in April 1789.
Further south again, South Goa lays claim to the very best of the state's beaches, a slower pace both of life and of tourism development, and a heady combination of emerald paddy fields, white sands beaches and warm, azure waters.
Unfortunately for me it is hard for me to cope with the pace of my life at the moment.
"The pace of modern life is so fast that it is even snatching away the precious years of childhood, " she said.
Despite the hectic pace of his life, Marsar says that not a day goes by when he doesn't think about those who perished on Sept. 11.
The movement was born in 1986 in the northern Italian town of Bra, with the brief of combating the frenetic pace of modern life, which means we often eat badly and in a rush.
That stems from our kind of island life, our pace of the way we live.
Those needing a temporary escape from the pace of 21st-century life can stay at the abbey for a few days or a whole week, praying with the monks (some guests might decide to skip the first service of the day, at 3:20 in the morning), eating the same vegetarian fare as the monks, and observing the same strict silence at mealtimes.
Since releasing the 1997 album "Come on Over, " which became the best-selling country album of all time, her life hit a feverish pace of road shows and promotions that continued even after the birth of her son in 2001.
For anyone numbed by the impersonal nature of modern Chinese apartment blocks or the frenzied pace of urban China, the earth buildings are enchanting reminders of communal village life and the ancient rhythms of the agrarian southeast.
There are no private cars, slowing life down to the pace of bicycles, and little crime.
Caves were thought to be essentially devoid of life until six years ago, when the renowned University of Colorado microbiologist Norman Pace, also an avid caver, discovered a way to identify extremophile microorganisms by cloning and sequencing unique sections of their DNA. Prior to Pace's work biologists had fruitlessly tried to cultivate these microorganisms with traditional lab techniques using nutrient-rich petri dishes.
The EU has improved life in other ways too, forcing the pace of reform as a condition of membership and providing billions of euros for modernisation.
If you need to escape the city, you have easy access to the historic Golden Ring towns of Sergiev Posad, Suzdal and Vladimir, where you will be rewarded with a slice of rural Russian life far from the frenetic city pace.
Former pace bowler Ata-ur-Rehman was also banned for life as a result of the Qayyum report, while six other players - Wasim Akram, Waqar Younis, Saeed Anwar, Inzamam-ul Haq, Mushtaq Ahmed and Akram Raza - were fined.
Rebel against the demands of your day to day and visit a place where the pace is a little slower and life's as sweet as a Georgia peach.
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