The suburbs may be pleasant enough when parents are absorbed with work and children, but for the childless and the empty-nesters the city has many merits.
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Before the storm 18% of the 11 million square feet available in the city sat empty, vacancy rates that were five percentage points higher than the national average.
The typical landscape of a Newman film was the raw sidestreets of a city or the empty plains, in which a man would try to get a grip on an aimless, violent life.
When the war ended, I expected to meet my family and friends, but the city was empty.
Instead, with roads closed and some public transport suspended, most shops shut on Saturday and the city remained empty apart from police and protesters.
But the vast empty car park outside the Art of War City and its near-deserted courtyards suggest the town is struggling.
In the commercial, a seemingly empty city is actually full of people who blend in perfectly with their surroundings.
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Say there is empty land inside the city.
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The creatures who survived the initial surge will be treated to lots of trash and food that got pushed underground with the water, and with city streets and stores downtown empty and without power, the braver survivors are free to forage.
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Most stations still have plastic bags wrapped around their nozzles, now the universal symbol for empty in this city.
So tight is his relationship with Industry that when he proposed developing the remaining empty parcel of 425 prime acres in the summer of 1999, the city quietly and without seeking competing bids ditched plans to sell off the area piece by piece and gave the land to Roski's Majestic, gratis.
It is the height of the holiday season but Derry City Airport is empty.
He said the stadium was "really important to the city" but the firm was embarrassed about the old ground being empty.
Already the streets are empty, shops and markets have closed and there lots of police vehicles racing around the city.
"When I went outside to get some food and medicine I noticed that the streets are almost empty, " an activist named Lena said from the Mazzeh neighborhood on the west side of the city.
Housing stock is crumbling, and the center city is a study in urban decay: empty lots, boarded-up businesses, foreclosure signs.
But City let the visitors back into the game within a minute as centre back Stefan Savic failed to deal with a long ball and Jermain Defoe took the ball round City goalkeeper Joe Hart to finish into an empty net.
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The City of York has 585 private homes which have been empty for more than six months but has not yet used its EDMO powers.
While the center of Erfurt is still picturesque and remains a big draw for tourists, some big block buildings on the city's outskirts that used to be residential apartments now sit empty, many of them boarded up.
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The southern city of Luxor has been hit hard, with vacant hotel rooms and empty cruise ships.
Sandy flats lie to the east, west and south, with empty lots jutting up against halted new construction, gambling mainstays and the crumbling inner city.
Martin Mullaney, cabinet member for leisure, sport and culture at Birmingham City Council, said the building earmarked for the photography museum was currently empty and needed a new use.
Even by the standards of most big American cities, Oklahoma City's centre is still disconcertingly empty.
Vacancies are so prevalent that the city has put murals of Rochester's former glory along stretches of multiple empty storefronts to hide the eyesores.
But the sell-and-hold-off-buying strategy makes sense for big-city empty-nesters.
Business owners said they feared new shops coming into the city would choose the new site, rather than the historic High Town area, which has empty shops.
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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.
He had driven to the Indo-Pakistani food store one city over, brought home a dozen bags of spices, and rooted around in the cupboards for empty jars to store them in.
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