Living conditions in these are basic at best - a one-room family-house with a tiny shed-like kitchen-conversion and often no private toilet - but it is this unusual mix of ancient aristocratic architecture and current-day, salt-of-the-earth locals that gives the hutong alleys their unique character.
While all were close friends or family, no one can love a house as much as the owner.
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Music filled the family house: one grandfather had been a classical pianist, the other had his own skiffle group.
It reckons that one Colombian family in four has lost a close relation to violence, and that one person in three who moved house in the past five years did so to escape it.
But the book will at the same time enhance Mr Roberts's reputation as a scholar to be reckoned with: no one else has mined the Cecil family archive at Hatfield House to such effect.
One family I talked to said that they hadn't left their house.
Ms Wood said she had been at her brother Darren's house "so the family could all be in one place to give each other support" when she was told about the burglary.
Yet, when I left my abusive ex-husband -- an Ivy League Wall Street trader who kept three loaded guns in our house -- I had no one to accompany me to family court to get my temporary restraining order made permanent, and no one to help me begin divorce proceedings.
This house is an exact replica of the one where Yuri's family lived before they moved to the nearby city of Gzhatsk (now renamed Gagarin).
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Tamerlan "swaggered" through the family home like a "man-of-the-house type, " one visitor recalls, while Dzhokhar seemed "very respectful and very obedient" to his mother.
There has not even been much progress in fairly simple cases where a family has taken over more than one property in a village (in one instance, simply to house a pet dog).
The destruction of one house left a 42-year-old man dead and injured seven members of his family, including his father, wife and five of his children, he said.
Two large backhoes scraped and pulled at the house Monday afternoon, with one gently removing possessions including a flag, a jacket, family photographs, a bicycle and a china cabinet.
To leave your house is one thing, to be thrown out of it and to split up a whole family in the end is something else.
The costumes are period and the set recreates the one designed by Jo Mielziner for the original 1949 production, an exploded view of the Lomans' family house that also functions as the setting for other scenes.
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And 62% of adults believe that a marriage in which the husband and wife both have jobs and both take care of the house and children provides a more satisfying life than one in which the husband provides for the family and the wife takes care of the home.
Every Italian under 30 has grown to political maturity in a country where Mr Berlusconi and his family control half the television output, one of four national newspapers, one of two news magazines and the biggest publishing house.
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