As a rule , those who can afford it seem increasingly to temper the urban living of the weekday with a touch of rural life at the weekend. (BNC)
When it came to shopping , which is after all one of the main features of urban living, the average Parisian was a provincial who liked to choose his butcher and baker and who wanted them to be near at hand. (BNC) The pressures of urban living had not yet become such that men wished to flee, as they do now, to the mountains. (BNC)