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...scorned; Sim Rosedale (La Paglia), another of Lily's suitors, earns scowls because he was crude enough to earn his money instead of inheriting it. But Lily has no wealth to cushion her fall. Her old, sure sashay down garden paths is now a scurry along tenement streets; she is afraid of being seen by those who once were pleased to say they knew...
Cambridge residents blasted Harvard for its still vague plans to expand into Allston and its decision to build a new art museum on the riverside site of Mahoney's Garden Center at a meeting of City of Cambridge Planning Board...
Their three acres, a 10-minute walk from the small hilltop village of Viens, feature a garden with the requisite stone picnic table, a fountain waiting for a plumber and a driveway requiring four-wheel-drive vehicles. "The initial appeal of this area was due to all of the trite stuff, like the light, the food and the countryside," says Strait, 56, a former lawyer who once lived in Paris for five years. "We loved this part of France and wanted to get a new place while we both made the transition from full-time work to something completely different...
...Ruth McVey first traveled to Montisi in 1975 while on a break from teaching at the University of London, she never expected she would end up farming there. She was so delighted by the tiny Tuscan town that she just hoped "to have a nice house and a little garden" once she retired. But the two-story farmhouse she bought came with quite a bit of land. So now, at 70, she produces olive oil, tends a tiny orchard and keeps some sheep and goats...
Despite their popularity, Ajijic and the other villages on the lake are quite affordable. A two-bedroom house with a garden rents for about $600 a month and could be built for less than $200,000. A couple can live very nicely on $1,500 to $2,000 a month once housing is paid. Some, says Mary Alice, "live on Social Security--others on Social Security plus a small pension--and they live quite well." Many families, including the Sargents, hire a maid or gardener for about $1.60 an hour. The Sargents pay as they go for inexpensive medical care...