as in outskirts
the districts adjacent to a city
the migration of families to suburbia and the resulting disintegration of inner-city neighborhoods
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Recent Examples of suburbia
But while Toth’s travels cut across a wide swath of the mid-century world, Corbet’s production had a much smaller footprint: Most of the film — including its depiction of 1950s American suburbia — was shot in Budapest.
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Christopher Vourlias, Variety, 30 Nov. 2024
The Couple Next Door explores the claustrophobia of suburbia and the fallout of chasing your deepest desires.
—Marc Berman, Forbes, 21 Nov. 2024
Which means neither of us were dreaming of living in the suburbs, but ironically our life is now very classic suburbia, living in a house just south of Aarhus, Denmark’s second biggest city.
—Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune Europe, 15 Oct. 2024
His surrender to suburbia is a practical yet self-destructive choice, and The Bikeriders is another in Nichols’s line of films about people caught in a shifting, mutating America as the country’s mores, morals, and modes either sweep them up in change or threaten to leave them behind.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 17 July 2024
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Christopher Vourlias, Variety, 30 Nov. 2024
The Couple Next Door explores the claustrophobia of suburbia and the fallout of chasing your deepest desires.
—Marc Berman, Forbes, 21 Nov. 2024
Which means neither of us were dreaming of living in the suburbs, but ironically our life is now very classic suburbia, living in a house just south of Aarhus, Denmark’s second biggest city.
—Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune Europe, 15 Oct. 2024
His surrender to suburbia is a practical yet self-destructive choice, and The Bikeriders is another in Nichols’s line of films about people caught in a shifting, mutating America as the country’s mores, morals, and modes either sweep them up in change or threaten to leave them behind.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 17 July 2024
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“Suburbia.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/suburbia. Accessed 31 Dec. 2024.
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