Now, the beachy destination is attracting a different crowd — India's yuppies.
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Of course, educated yuppies are just one slice of the Democratic coalition.
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But yuppies, foreigners, millennials with cash, and baby boomers are lining up.
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It used to be a cool artist community—now it's mostly yuppies.
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" He went on: "Everybody from slackers to yuppies carefully 'curates' their outward appearance.
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We are not all former yuppies who are retiring from six-figure salaries.
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Then the art just made it OK for all the yuppies to move in.
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There was cooking culture, which was these yuppies making pasta that you're talking about.
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Throughout the '80s, granite was still jockeying with marble for favor among California yuppies.
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On the contrary, building big new places for yuppies to live prevents the yuppies from doing what my wife and I did — buying an old house and renovating it so that it is now nicer but houses fewer people than it did pregentrification.
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" He added, "Yuppies would only be too happy to turn the place into upmarket condominiums.
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Yuppies order food from menus that less well-educated people could find intimidating, he says.
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The solution can't be pining for old neighborhoods, sneering at yuppies, and vilifying social planners.
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Its row houses have been taken over by yuppies; its cultural and nightlife scenes are thriving.
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B. and I have the benefit of looking like total yuppies, so we arouse little suspicion.
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But while hipsters were, like the yuppies before them, young and urban-dwelling, they weren't exactly professional.
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The works critique capitalism, yuppies, aspirational life, and what Perry sees as a corruption of British culture.
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There were Southern white college girls, yuppies, frat bros, working class black and white people, thugs, and everything.
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MALCOLM BEGGLondon Germany's election may be one of the most boring ever ("Return of the yuppies", September 2nd).
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J.C. Pan in "The New Yuppies" delves into two new book on the current state of the Yuppie.
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But Esquire has already survived the Great Depression, World War II, disco, yuppies and the dot-com bust.
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These members of the new tech worker movement don't sound like the "hippie yuppies" of the Californian Ideology.
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Who wants to live in a city overwhelmed with yuppies traversing non-descript, artificial silhouettes of monolithic developments?
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Kwan's is a high society dominated by Chuppies (Chinese yuppies) and Henwees (high-net worth individuals, or HNWIs).
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The 3,000-year-old Indian tradition of Ayurvedic balance between mind, body and spirit is popular among Delhi's yuppies.
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Cynics might be tempted to dismiss such measures as an easy way for yuppies to assuage their guilty consciences.
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Later mocked as "Whole Paycheck" for its high prices, it eventually became associated more closely with yuppies than with hippies.
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The yuppies networking, the panic, the vomit, the panic, the vomit, God loves his children, God loves his children, yeah!
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Meanwhile the US Surgeon General is begging people to stop buying masks and yuppies in Brooklyn are raiding Trader Joe's.
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The dim yellow lighting and stained cement walls at the Zyme Shack make it feel like a bomb shelter for yuppies.
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There are a lot of yuppies and young business people who are loud, obnoxious, and don't really know what's going on.
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Brooks also cites other ways that yuppies speak their own language, which excludes anyone who doesn't know what they're talking about.
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The reasonably robust crowd consisted of North Korean yuppies, their ties and Mao collars loosened after a long day at work.
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Ponte City, a cylindrical brutalist skyscraper stretching 2100 storeys, was built for yuppies who had flocked to the city, often from Europe.
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Yuppies, on the other hand, were seasoned careerists who owned yachts and luxury SUVs and talked in public about their stock portfolios.
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The audience was trailing off a little bit, and Brass Tacks, which has replaced Marlena's, is super popular among young, white yuppies.
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She is the new voice of the MTA and can haunt every single tourist and yuppies who deigns to use her subway system.
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"It's all yuppies and kids in strollers and all of that — and a few old codgers," Crowley, 82, said over a recent lunch.
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Created by Tony Basgallop, the series is so broadly drawn that its satirical aspects, in terms of privileged yuppies and parenting, get diluted.
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Considering the high cost of travel to Costa Rica, I'd half-expected the crowd at festival to be dominated by young, downward-dogging yuppies.
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" How millennials dance We entered the hellish fray of lights, ripped jeans, and mohawks to finally come upon two dudes Guy dubbed "the yuppies.
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"Those bankruptcies screwed a lot of people -- and not just hedge fund yuppies," said a top strategist aligned with a pro-Clinton super PAC.
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It's turned into the monstrous bar of choice for Downtown yuppies and Brickell-ite's who are all trying to have sex with each other.
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The novel may appear at first glance to be a facile "Wake up, yuppies!" parable, but it guides us with assurance toward thornier terrain.
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It's turned into the monstrous bar of choice for downtown yuppies and Brickell-ite's who are all trying to have sex with each other.
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When an open house overrun with "hip yuppies" stirred their competitive spirit — if all those people wanted the place, shouldn't they try to snag it?
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Theta HealingWith courses ranging from $900 to $5,000, Theta healing is one of the more expensive ways yuppies can part themselves from their easily-earned money.
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I've witnessed countless yuppies roll their eyes and remark that most strippers have been molested, as if those women should be ashamed of having been victimized.
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Like a New York subway car on a Friday night filled with wealthy yuppies, street kids, and wayward freaks, the store is both democratic and fabulous.
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But the city's demography long ago shifted away from factory workers and towards multicultural yuppies, and last March the GreenLeft party came first in the municipal election.
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I can get there later and stock up on packages of Cauliflower Gnocchi before all the other yuppies of New York City get their grubby hands on it.
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I didn't see all of this at the time, but not having a pot to piss in myself, I certainly identified with the poorer protagonists over the fledgling yuppies.
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For some it is a class issue, a case of urban eco-yuppies imposing their bike and scooter fads on suburbanites and country folk who rely on their cars.
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The videotape dating services used by time-poor yuppies in the 1980s set the stage for the boom in high-tech mate-shopping by the turn of the 21st century.
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Courtney Jung is a professor at University of Toronto and the author of Lactivism: How Feminists and Fundamentalists, Hippies and Yuppies, Physicians and Politicians Made Breastfeeding Big Business and Bad Policy.
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The Second Mountain eventually trundles into a vague spiritual awakening, but it is also almost admirably straightforward about the fact that it is a book by a yuppie and for yuppies.
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Black flight is a real thing here as the city becomes more homogeneous, with more and more design-focused white yuppies coming every day to take advantage of whatever they can.
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Now most of these sanctuaries have been wiped out by yuppies and gentrification, or in downtown NYC's case, fucking idiot students who've made the East Village their own private frat party.
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Battery Park City flowered; yuppies priced out of TriBeCa came down to Wall Street; a new Guggenheim, designed by a fresh-from-Bilbao Frank Gehry, nearly arose by South Street Seaport.
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It's especially legitimate because the genius of the YIMBY agenda is that "build a bunch of big new places for yuppies to live" doesn't come at the expense of anyone else.
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Toyota leans into its hybrid car's reputation as the vehicle of choice for earthy-crunchy yuppies with a catchy song that includes lyrics about chai and not being pulled over by cops.
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The app has historically been best enjoyed by high-earning, metropolitan yuppies — tech workers in San Francisco, entertainment industry types in LA, and banking and media employees in New York, for instance.
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It's not disgruntled parents carping about mop tops, or hippies, or yuppies, or goths, or emo/scene kids, or VSCO girls, though people certainly do still criticize specific aspects of youth culture.
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The pubs and clubs, now heaving with red-faced yuppies and exhausted shoppers, were instead filled with queers kids, soul boys and fashion students from nearby Central Saint Martins and Central School.
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Battery Park City flowered; yuppies priced out of TriBeCa came down to Wall Street; a new Guggenheim, designed by a fresh-out-of-Bilbao Frank Gehry, nearly arose by South Street Seaport.
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Battery Park City flowered; yuppies priced out of Tribeca came down to Wall Street; a new Guggenheim, designed by a fresh-out-of-Bilbao Frank Gehry, nearly arose by South Street Seaport.
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The nearest equivalent is a nameless teenage dealer (played with a menacing swagger by Mohammad Amiri) who drifts on and off the conveyor belt, smoking marijuana and railing against yuppies and global conspiracies.
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Carless yuppies aren't going to lug bookshelves on the subway or in an Uber, if companies like Amazon or Wayfair can get them the same product delivered to their doorsteps at comparable prices.
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"Every few years it's different; hippies, families, yuppies," he said recently, in the skeptic inflection that Jackie Mason has mined for decades, ticking off the broad categories of locals who have become his customers.
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But despite being an overt attempt to capture the zeitgeist of Seattle's grunge scene, Singles is really a romantic comedy revolving around two yuppies, played by the very un-grungy Kyra Sedgwick and Campbell Scott.
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It's the kind of movie where anything goes for a joke, but where the characters aren't sacrificed for the sake of those jokes, and it captures some of the empty energy of the '80s yuppies.
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Moments of apparently candid detail – like paying $1.25 for a taxi ride, bugs biting at skin on a porch, or "Yuppies in the prefabs holding hands at midnight" – can shift focus before a line is through.
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Moments of apparently candid detail—like paying $1.25 for a taxi ride, bugs biting at skin on a porch, or "Yuppies in the prefabs holding hands at midnight"—can shift focus before a line is through.
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The one-time village in New Delhi is now the victim (or beneficiary?) of much gentrification, first co-opted first by off-beat, hipster artists chasing cheap rents, and then by yuppies and millennials chasing cheap drinks.
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Single-family homes that today are sold to flippers or to yuppies looking to undertake a gut renovation project would instead tend to get sold to small-scale apartment developers who would refashion them as denser structures.
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" The philosophy "promiscuously combines the free-wheeling spirit of the hippies and the entrepreneurial zeal of the yuppies," Barbrook and Cameron wrote, while mixing "the social liberalism of New Left and the economic liberalism of New Right.
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This movie right here will have you getting busy in minutes—and making it work afterward—if only to avoid being anything like the members of its belly button-fingering proto-millennial yuppies-in-denial love quadrangle.
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By contrast, Elizabeth Currid-Halkett, a scholar of public policy, maintains that today's PMC is no less ambitious than the yuppies of yore, but that in an age of deepening inequality and precarity they are less openly hedonistic.
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A pair of yuppies (she's a therapist, he's a journalist) from the bluest of blue states move to a ramshackle farm in the Cornhusker state, and nobody mentions whether America's great or needs to be made that way again?
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Whether it was recession causing job loss, the election of another Democrat president bent on gun control, or the disenfranchisement of rural Americans from the urban yuppies running politics—many militiamen have a healthy distrust of the federal government.
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It's not that he was unfriendly—it was more like he probably hears this inquiry at least once a week from neo-yuppies who had shelved their vague desire to "be an artist" and suddenly realized they've become boring.
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The show is brilliant at sending up the anxieties and pathologies of the city's yuppies, but characters outside this circle are often made relatable to HBO's audience by being supplied with some quirk, hidden talent or non-normative sexuality.
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Yes, his fund had shorted GastroLux, a pharma with a new GERD reflux medication in Phase II trial that was supposed to cure the esophageal difficulties of stressed-out yuppies belching up their Acela coffee and egg-and-sausage rolls.
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Later, at a party with mostly upwardly mobile Muslim yuppies where people make homophobic jokes—assuming that everyone in the room is straight—my Muslimness means that I can rage and shut down the jokes without being read as queer.
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Whether or not we still hated "yuppies," as Time magazine once asserted, the professional classes of Generation X were beginning to earn, and that only continued, despite the giant dislocations of the dot-com bust (2000) and the Great Recession.
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When Duan opens up the app anywhere in the country, be it in Beijing's bustling commercial district Sanlitun or back in Xinzhou, he'll find an endless scroll of users: cosmopolitan yuppies dressed in drag, rural blue-collar workers with faceless profiles.
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The film of the first book, which came out last year, is an even more caricatured depiction of social advancement, full of jealous spouses, mean girls, manipulative mothers-in-law, cigar-chomping tycoons, Chuppies (Chinese yuppies) and Henwees (high-net-worth individuals).
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Citing a dark joke from one of his colleagues, Chakrabarty gave me an equally unappetizing long-term forecast: "The yuppies of the future are going to be eating jellyfish, because there aren't going to be enough fish to eat," he told me.
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As a resident who had lived there long enough to see the factories leave and the yuppies arrive, I found "After Hours" seriously anachronistic back in 1985, complaining in The Village Voice that it really should have been set in Williamsburg or Dumbo.
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The Los Angeles Times reports that the latest craze among Bay Area yuppies who think they're cool because they listen to Spotify's This is LCD Soundsystem playlist while cooking—but who still want to feel like they're cool after procreating—is baby raves.
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M.C. and I went with our friends, we all piled into this big ass arena downtown which was full of black people and white people and young kids and old burnouts and yuppies in expensive seats and poorer people in the nosebleed section, just completely mobbed.
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While these professions suggest a degree of financial stability, if not affluence, Fowler emphasizes that the denizens of Oak Knoll aren't ostentatious, like the "yuppies" in the "big graceless houses in new outlying subdivisions" or the "blue bloods" and industrial titans in nearby "fairy-tale" mansions.
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That's my theory about why my dad has been visiting the same diner for the past 30 years, even though he knows the food is nothing special: He always runs into his friends there, and he likes the nothing-specialness because he knows it keeps the yuppies out.
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Said to be the cultural offspring of yuppies and hipsters, yuccies are a cross between "the yuppie's new money thirst for yachts and recognition with the hipster's anti-ambition, smoke-laced individualism," said self-proclaimed yuccie David Infante, who coined the term in a Mashable post last June.
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Half a century ago, as the Age of Aquarius gave way to the Age of Reagan, many of the hippies of the '60s became, in effect, the yuppies of the '80s — still socially liberal, but with new concerns about government spending, now that they were paying taxes and mortgages.
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In 1988, when "Eastern Standard" first landed the playwright on Broadway, his characters would have been called yuppies, and Greenberg their foremost chronicler; since then, many theatergoers have taken to calling them — and Greenberg — "privileged," a word that the playwright himself avoids, even as it's become common American vernacular.
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The district is ground zero of gentrification in the city—the traditionally Latino neighborhood hosted first punks and artists, which then led to yuppies, and finally to techies, who have priced out many of the Latino families and artists that made the neighborhood desirable in the first place.
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You've made it this far, and now it might be tempting, as you search for the perfect holiday film with which to round out the year, to kick back and let Bruce Willis carry you, barefoot, over crunching glass, amid the wailing of a bunch of hapless '80s yuppies, into 2018.
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Like his protagonist, he relished being naughty but yearned to be rich; those desires were hardly irreconcilable in a city that simultaneously embraced the materialism of the Reagan era and rejected its moralism, where stretch limos deposited partygoers in unseemly neighborhoods and yuppies ran rampant while "Die Yuppie Scum" graffiti spread.
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" By the late 1980s, fending off a challenge from Mexican beers that were being marketed to younger drinkers — by then, the decade had minted (and named) a new demographic, yuppies, who gravitated to trendy imports — Heineken changed its advertising direction, which was focused by a tagline: "When you're done kidding around, Heineken.
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And you describe all these other generations of daters that follow them: the college men and coeds (an early generation of lustful frat boys and sorority girls in the 240s and 1930s), the Steadies (1950s daters who started "going steady" and invented the breakup), the Yuppies (1980s daters who helped create dating niches).
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And by bundling together book lending services that seem to be mostly used by educated yuppies, computer terminals and job training classes that seem to be mostly used by lower-income working-class people, and toddler activities that a very diverse set of families enjoy, the library system garners strong public support.
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The luxury- and self-obsessed yuppies of the "greed is good" eighties demanded that the romantic market deliver partners tailored to their niche specifications, developing early versions of the kinds of matchmaking services that have been perfected in today's digital gig economy, where the personal is professional, and everyone self-brands accordingly.
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In these pages, Ms. Straub gives us lots of sharp, unfiltered snapshots of a Brooklyn in the throes of transition — from "a city next door, with its own rhythms and heartbeats" to a borough full of Manhattan transfers and yuppies, a place where there are now tree guards and block parties with bouncy castles for the kids.
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Her first act out of prison (after stealing some truly fabulous clothes and makeup and setting up shop in a suite overlooking Central Park, a masterclass in Anna Delvey-level grifting) is to assemble a crew, and that starts with Lou (Cate Blanchett), Debbie's former partner, who's been toying with a semi-legitimate life as a club-owner who serves watered down vodka to yuppies.
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The late '80s saw Stone films like Born on the Fourth of July, which returned to the subject of Vietnam and the question of war's effect on individuals soldiers; Talk Radio, a play-like production about an early shock jock; and Wall Street, a dramatic thriller set in the world of high finance that brought together Stone's hatred of Reagan-era yuppies and his distrust of capitalism.
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In recent years, writers like Adelle Waldman and filmmakers like Noah Baumbach have tried to capture both the rapidly-shifting metropolitan landscape (and what that means not just for rent and real estate but also for love and culture) and what it was like to grow up in, say, modern Park Slope before it was the butt of jokes about baby-strollers piloted by yuppies making six figures.
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For now, the cultural mainstays that afford young people of color the privilege of community are doing their best to serve good food and good conversation: Bini's Kitchen provides Nepalese momos at street food fairs for forlorn Desi-yuppies; Reem Assil of Reem's California offers an activist space for Palestinian changemakers fond of za'atar mana'eesh; El Huarache Loco sells Mexican street food reminiscent of Chef Veronica Salazar's hometown of Mexico City; and Preeti Mistry has long been known for creating inclusive spaces, like her now-closed Juhu Beach Club and Navi Kitchen, and fighting for her own existence as a queer woman of color in the food industry.
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