the burbs
Beyond city limits
The burbs is an informal shortening of the suburbs—residential areas surrounding a city.
The term often carries connotations of conformity, boredom, or middle-class domesticity: We moved out to the burbs when the kids started school.
Sometimes used dismissively by city dwellers to suggest cultural blandness.
- ranch houseOne-story sprawling house
- white picket fenceTraditional property divider
- family-orientedFocused on household relationships
- middle classIntermediate socioeconomic group
- soccer momSuburban parent stereotype
cul-de-sac · picket fence · two-car garage · strip mall · sprawl · quiet living · real estate market · sidewalks · homeownership · Tom Hanks · commuter town · carpooling · neighborhood watch · block party · garage sale · backyard barbecue · keeping up with the Joneses · property taxes
the burbsthe sticks
Remote countryside areas
rural America · rural areas · the boonies · farm country · farmland
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