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Columbus' surroundings
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suburbs
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Suburbs are a residential area or a mixed use area, either existing as part of a city or urban area or as a separate residential community within commuting distance of a city. Suburbs or The Suburbs may also refer to:
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n. 1 The populated area surrounding a city. 2 (context by extension English) (plural of suburb English)Category:English plurals
Usage examples of suburbs.
Tom had never seen so many trading suburbs and traction villages gathered in one place before.
He thought it looked a bit like Crawley, or Purley Spokes, the suburbs that London had built back in the great old days when there was so much prey that cities could afford to build little satellite towns.
Americans of much longer tenure, living in either another section of the city or the newly created suburbs, sometimes idealized the culture of their ancestors and even adopted certain British ethnic traits.
Rural cornfields gave way to housing tracts as the growing suburbs expanded far out into the countryside.
These burgeoning suburbs created both new communities and an entirely different American subculture.
When young householders took their growing wealth and tax base with them from the cities to the suburbs, they created a economic, generational, and cultural division between them and the cities.
The newer chains, without established traditions or customers, thus were better able to serve this changing society, building their restaurants out in the suburbs to accommodate the eating needs of the growing middle class.
West Coast, long thriving in the suburbs of Los Angeles and slow to spread eastward.
Burgers migrated to the suburbs during the 1950s where they were readily claimed.
For the construction of newer Castles, however, most of the managers agreed that either the suburbs or the solidly working-class sections of the cities were preferable to the inner city.
This lack of new building frustrated Ingram, who knew that the company could make even greater profits by edging out toward the suburbs, but he did not have enough capital to start a large-scale expansion.
The town stands between two hills, the suburbs or outskirts running up on to each of them.
But why does New York, with its suburbs boast a million of inhabitants, while Montreal has 85,000?
The suburbs of New York are, by the nature of the localities, divided from the city by water.
In beauty of scenery Staten Island is very much the prettiest of the suburbs of New York.