Now Chicago is becoming the first choice for a generation of film makers who are escaping the expense and congestion and cliches of the coasts or are seeking unvarnished realism.

He said people around retirement age were willing to move farther away from a city into a rural surrounding to escape congestion and fear of crime.

Eventually the wealthy began to move away from the cities once more out of a desire to escape urban congestion and its perceived effects on mental and physical health.

Sailing is an ideal way to escape the heat and congestion of summer in the city.

More recently, people have come to escape congestion and pollution elsewhere.

Mrs. Ragucci said many recent buyers were New York City policemen, firemen and sanitation workers relocating from Brooklyn to escape crime and congestion.

Built in the mid-1960's to attract corporations seeking to escape costs, crime and congestion in New York, the park's 500,000 square feet of office space was dispersed among six buildings designed for individual tenants.

In addition to escaping regional congestion, this area offered further geographical opportunities as it "is bordered by three major freeways... making it easier to get downtown, where most jobs were located, and to Chinatown."

Modern is one of the symbols of the so-called top of the circle makes the mainland economy and faster, being increasingly used by the richest of the city to escape major congestion.

They knew only that they wanted to escape the high housing prices and congestion of Long Island, where they lived.