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Suburbia
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The place where the Dom Com usually lives, a homogeneous Obsessively Normal "bedroom community" of single family homes. Unlike many old inner city neighborhoods, which grew organically in a "hodge-podge" way, the suburbs are often newly built all at once by a housing Mega-Corp using a generic street plan. Most of the residents are families or couples and, due to zoning regulations that make apartments impermissible, there are few lower-income residents. People live in houses that, while not exactly palatial, are still a lot bigger than those available downtown for a similar price. Most of the houses look alike, having been built according to the Mega-Corp's two or three plans as an efficiency measure. The street names are bland and banal, like the architecture. The Suburbs are designed around the car, with long distances to shops and services, so adults will mostly drive around. Kids may bike around alone in this relatively safe community. Instead of a Main Street with small "mom and pop" stores and family restaurants like most small towns of Everytown, America, a suburb will have The Mall, be it a big, enclosed shopping center or a "big box" mall with a Walmart and national and multinational chain stores. You can walk or ride a bike to a few places, but not most of the important places like The Mall, so plots involving the availability of a car (such as the Very Special Episode about the dangers of drunk driving) are possible. Depending on the genre, Suburbia may also be home to a ragtag band of kids and teens, The Quincy Punks, talking animals, and cool Elders; sometimes, all there together! In less satirical examples (see below), Suburbia may be the staging point for a City of Adventure, especially if it borders The Big City. While the mythology of suburbia's idyllic perfection has become a lauded part of The American Dream, a deep well of satire and (often not very affectionate) parody has arisen, especially from disaffected youth. In the middle of the 20th century, the American intelligentsia were obsessed with attacking the actual and perceived shortcomings of suburbia. By the nineties, the idea of satirizing suburbia was so ingrained in American culture that it was itself satirized. The fact that we have an entire trope about this, Stepford Suburbia, speaks volumes about the way many Americans view the suburban lifestyle. |
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Rally Round the Flag, Boys! is set in the nice, typical suburban village of Fairfield County, Connecticut and is about the lives of the townsfolk disrupted by a new missile installation. | |
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Maude was set in the affluent real-life NYC suburb of Tuckahoe, New York. | |
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My Family and Me: The show stars a Nuclear Family in the suburbs of Cloverdale, California. | |
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Cause of Death: The gated community's conceit of being a haven from all things nasty takes a beating in the Domestic Disturbance dyad. Even apart from the psycho killer who just got activated, Natara discovers that just about every adult in the walls is cheating on their spouses. The sole exceptions that she noticed? The two swingers. | |
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Rush's classic "Subdivisions" is a song about children raised in the suburbs failing to rebel against stifling conformity, getting crushed by the banality of the job market in the cities, and being nostalgic for their childhood and so moving back to the suburbs to perpetuate the cycle. | |
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Halloween (1978) takes place in an ordinary Midwestern suburb (although it was actually filmed in the Los Angeles suburb of Pasadena), and was one of the first horror films to utilize the familiar suburban environment and a key contributor to the "suburban Gothic" sub-genre. | |
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Ordinary People: The wealthy suburb of Lake Forest (and the Jarretts' unhappiness within it) is contrasted with the peace Calvin and Conrad find in Evanston (technically a city – and referred to as such in the novel – but still a suburb of Chicago). Calvin and Conrad move to Evanston at the end of the novel. | |
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The Wednesday Wars: The whole book takes place in the nice town of Camillo, Long Island. Everyone knows each other and most of the kid's parents are pretty well-off, except Doug's and Mai Thi. | |
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The Wonder Years chronicles a teenager growing up in a suburb somewhere during The '60s. | |
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The setting of Eagle Eye Mysteries. At Richview's north end is a farm area; northwest is the local Buccaneer Beach; downtown has two jewelry stores and a bank; and most of the map's lower half is residential. | |
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Melody: At the beginning of the story, the protagonist, Bethany, and Tim appear to live in the suburbs of a major city. In both the Good Ending and the Family Ending, this is where the protagonist and Melody eventually settle down. They have their little detached house with a manicured lawn for themselves and maybe a little one. |
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Dream Daddy: The setting is a peaceful cul-de-sac in a friendly neighborhood. | |
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Fright Night (2011): Most of the movie is set in a new middle-class residential development, a little island of identical houses surrounded by desert. Aerial shots at the beginning emphasize the homogeny of the homes and the banal, wholesome ambiance of the neighborhood. | |
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Edward Scissorhands derives a contrast from the gothic castle Edward is from and the friendly, pastel mid-century suburb at the foot of the town. The townsfolk are friendly, if a little insensitive to his condition, at least until Edward's situation begins deteriorating. | |
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Fallout 3: Tranquility Lane, a computer simulation, is modeled after 1950's suburbia with cheerful background music, neat and clean houses, perfectly manicured lawns, and white picket fences: a complete contrast to the wrecked and rotten neighborhoods of the surface world. It turns out to be a Stepford Suburbia, however. | |
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Fallout 4: Sanctuary Hills, Massachusetts, is a 1950's style suburb where the Happily Married player character lives at the beginning. It seems to be a surprisingly nice place to live, especially considering the broader milieu of 2077 with resource problems, urban riots, and a war between America and China. Then the bombs drop, and Sanctuary Hills becomes a mutant-infested ruin for the next two centuries. You can work with the Minutemen to make it a safe settlement once again, albeit no longer as this trope. | |
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Disclosure has the Coastal Regions variant: Tom and his family live on Bainbridge Island, a bedroom community within a 40-minute ferry ride of Seattle. | |
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Fallout: Fallout 3: Tranquility Lane, a computer simulation, is modeled after 1950's suburbia with cheerful background music, neat and clean houses, perfectly manicured lawns, and white picket fences: a complete contrast to the wrecked and rotten neighborhoods of the surface world. It turns out to be a Stepford Suburbia, however. Fallout 4: Sanctuary Hills, Massachusetts, is a 1950's style suburb where the Happily Married player character lives at the beginning. It seems to be a surprisingly nice place to live, especially considering the broader milieu of 2077 with resource problems, urban riots, and a war between America and China. Then the bombs drop, and Sanctuary Hills becomes a mutant-infested ruin for the next two centuries. You can work with the Minutemen to make it a safe settlement once again, albeit no longer as this trope. |
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Katie and Orbie: The main characters live in a nice, friendly suburb, apparently far from a major city. When they visit their grandparents in the big city, it's like visiting a new world. | |
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The first district of Criminal Case: The Conspiracy, Fairview, takes place in a stereotypical middle-class suburbia at the very edge of Grimsborough, brimming with identical-looking homes and Nosy Neighbors. Unfortunately, the neighborhood is far from tranquil during the player's visit due to the presence of a Serial Killer terrorizing it. | |
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Stepmom: Anna and Ben divide their time between Luke and Isabel's apartment in The City and Jackie's house in suburban Englewood, New Jersey. | |
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The topic of the Adam Ruins Everything episode "Adam Ruins...The Suburbs". Urban Segregation divided 20th-century neighborhoods into "red" and "green" zones. Modern suburban residents are descended from the those who lived in "green" zones, where mostly white residents were allowed to borrow money from banks and buy houses. This was discouraged and very difficult in "red" zones. | |
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The Power Broker: The parkways Moses built so that the increasing amount of city dwellers with automobiles could get to the state parks he built on Long Island help turn Nassau County from potato-farming country into today's suburban sprawl after World War II. | |
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In The Rest Of Us Just Live Here, Mikey describes where he lives as "a suburb of a suburb of a suburb of a suburb of a city that takes about a hour to get to." | |
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Though the neighborhood of Fatty Bear is never shown, both the interior and exterior of their house has the generic suburban structure. | |
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The Order of Melkizedek: Sonya's house is in a spanking-new Makati planned subdivision, either for the Nouveau Riche upper classes or the aspirational middle classes. It's modelled on a very American, midcentury-modernist style, with a wide-open lawn, flat-roofed profile, wide property footprint and low fence. Adela, too, lives with her husband Santiago in a similar suburban-style house. | |
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The Family Man: Jack spends much of his glimpse trying to get used to life in the suburbs. After Kate rejects his efforts to relocate the family to The City, he finally makes peace with their New Jersey home. | |
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