Word: neighborhooding
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...gymnastics again. While these shows do a social good, not just by helping but also by telling viewers they have the power to help others, they portray a particular kind of social contract as well. There is a great deal of talk of community in the small-town neighborhood sense and almost none in the national sense. They emphasize recipients' faith, their positivity, their unwillingness to blame others. Hardships are a result of fate, not cutbacks or social priorities. No one wonders why people in a rich nation forgo college or surgery. The solutions to problems are entirely private...
...sold their tiny ranch in Sacramento, Calif., for $369,000, or nearly twice what they had paid three years earlier. But rather than plow his money back into a sky-high market in which people were bandying about the word bubble, Choe rented a bigger house in a better neighborhood--at a monthly expense similar to his old mortgage and for less than half of what it would take to buy the new place...
...somewhere to avoid, especially at night. Damaged and depopulated during World War II, and further devastated under communist rule, the area of cobbled alleys, courtyards and galleried houses became shabby and forgotten, a neglect that preserved its historic character. But since Poland's return to democracy the neighborhood has been rejuvenated, and now boasts trendy restaurants and bars, an annual arts festival and the Center for Jewish Culture...
Join the club, Charles. Folks with no visible trace of their roots are fast multiplying. Teardowns, once the province of the exceptionally rich and developers rehabbing crumbling neighborhoods, have gone mainstream. Today well-kept homes are being knocked down by the thousands so that builders can get at the valuable ground beneath. "There's a certain sadness about what's happening to those great little cottages," Brit Fennell, a Coldwell Banker broker, says of Levan's old neighborhood, known as Brentwood Flats. "But the mansionization trend is consumer demand at work...
...There is barely enough space to shoehorn a tree in at Christmas, and Glynn's office doubles as his daughter's bedroom. Glynn and his wife considered buying a house when they married in 1994, but, he says, "I thought houses were overvalued." Now they can't afford their neighborhood, even though their income has grown considerably. So he and his wife are looking--in Oregon and Washington. "I kick myself when I think of places I saw" in the mid-'90s, Glynn says...