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The hawker food will be lost, he fears, as the population becomes affluent and aspiring cooks can afford Western education — culinary or otherwise.

"The arrival of Starbucks and Ben & Jerry's just confirms what the neighborhood has become: affluent and well educated.

Mao was born in the village of Shaoshan in Hunan province, the son of a former peasant who had become affluent as a farmer and grain dealer.

Millions of people have "cold water flat" stories of how they left the old neighborhood and became affluent.

Honório Hermeto pursued a typical course open to 19th century Brazilians who became affluent through family connections and patronage: a judicial career, with expectations of entering politics.

Every day, a hundred thousand people join India's middle class, and many have become affluent enough to eat out every week.

The Kushans became affluent through trade, particularly with Rome, as their large issues of gold coins show.

As Manhattan below 110th Street becomes increasingly affluent and homogeneous, sites for small indirectly subsidized developments are becoming scarce and more and more expensive.

With the global population expected to reach 8.5 billion by 2030, a major priority is urban residential buildings in emerging markets in China, Indonesia, Malaysia and North Africa, where people are expected to become more affluent and warm climates are projected to become even warmer.

But as the growth markets become more affluent and labor costs rise, wages in the United States will become more competitive, he says, and some jobs are likely to return.

He added: "The point at which you retire is being shifted as people become more affluent and live longer.