Two yuppie types came in, dressed says Colin 'in the demob suits typical of their species.'

Now, even more than before, Laurie felt that the public had to be warned, especially this group of yuppie types.

"It's bad when you have a whole community up in arms except for the yuppie types or the middle class or the rich," Ms. Cobb said.

"We're seeing a migration of yuppie types moving in, and blacks and minorities are being pushed out."

During the 1970s and 1980s the town saw an influx of artists, writers, photographers, musicians, alternative practitioners, teachers, green and New Age activists and more recently, wealthier 'yuppie' types.

Henderson Dores represents a new kind of Englishman - an upwardly mobile yuppie type, scrambling to get into the old-boy network.

He was an overwrought yuppie type, the kind Richard Benjamin played some years ago in "Diary of a Mad Housewife."

"All of the Hollywood celebrities and yuppie types are obsessed about making a really classy bed," she said.

Older people and children far outnumbered yuppie types.

Petey Benson was at the bar talking baseball to a yuppie type and almost dropped his teeth when he saw me with Candace.