suburbia

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suburbia (countable and uncountable, plural suburbias)

(originally Britain) The suburbs as a whole and all that characterizes or pertains to them; (sometimes derogatory) the suburbs as encapsulated or represented by the typical characteristics or qualities of the people living there, especially complacency, conformity, conservativeness, dullness, etc. [from late 19th c.]
Synonyms: suburbandom, suburbanhood, suburbanism, suburbanity

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Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them. Bill Vaughan

Bless Madison Ave for restoring the magical art of the cavemen to suburbia. Marshall McLuhan

I'm excited and terrified to write something new. I won't be writing about suburbia. Marc Cherry

The Twist was a guided missile, launched from the ghetto into the very heart of suburbia. The Twist succeeded, as politics, religion, and law could never do, in writing in the heart and soul what the Supreme Court could only write on the books. Eldridge Cleaver

Americans are suffering so much from being in unrewarding environments that it has made us very cynical. I think that American suburbia has become a powerful generator of anxiety and depression. James Howard Kunstler

I'm really the candidate who has really lived his whole life in suburbia. Bob McDonnell

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