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This could be heaven, or this could be hell Aerial view of a 1950s Levittown, New York housing development, showing rows of identical single-family homes with small yards and grid-like streets. Mary Tyler Moore and Timothy Hutton sit on a garden bench, engaged in conversation, in a scene from the film Ordinary People (1980). Aerial view of a sprawling suburban neighborhood in Las Vegas, Nevada, showing rows of houses with similar rooftops, curved streets, and landscaped yards. suburban neighbourhood
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This could be heaven, or this could be hell
This could be heaven, or this could be hell Despite being the subject of criticism in popular culture, the suburbs are where a majority of Americans call home.

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The place many Americans call “home” is as much a state of mind as a location.
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Merriam-Webster defines a suburb as “an outlying part of a city or town.” These residential areas that, in the United States, grew significantly after World War II have been heralded as the embodiment of the American Dream as well as criticized as soulless bastions of homogeneity. However they are defined, they are home to a majority of Americans, sporting bucolic names including Westchester county, New York; Oak Park, Illinois; and Highland Park, Texas. Brooklyn Heights...

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