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I do believe these are the suburbs I've heard the most about over the years:
Arlington, Texas
Irving, Texas
Plano, Texas
Sugarland, Texas
Round Rock, Texas
Aurora, Colorado
Littleton, Colorado
Marietta, Georgia
Roswell, Georgia
Mesa, Arizona
Scottsdale, Arizona
Santa Monica, California
Venice Beach, California
Long Beach, California
Beverly Hills, California
Burbank, California
Berkley, California
Bloomington, Minnesota
Independence, Missouri
Ferguson, Missouri
East St. Louis, Illinois
Evanston, Illinois
Elgin, Illinois
Cicero, Illinois
Dearborn, Michigan
Carmel, Indiana
Gary, Indiana
Covington, Kentucky
Newport, Kentucky
Murfreesboro, Tennesee
Franklin, Tennessee
Arlington, Virginia
Alexandria, Virginia
Bethesda, Maryland
Landover, Maryland
Wilmington, Delaware
Camden, New Jersey
Newark, New Jersey
Jersey City, News Jersey
White Plains, New York
Yonkers, New York
Greenwich, Connecticut
Lowell, Massachusetts
Cambridge, Massachusetts
When I was a kid, nothing important ever happened in a suburb, except Pasadena. Few people could name one. Levittown after the war.
The Suburb is not a uniform concept, because states all have different laws about how they can be formed. Highland Park is completely surrounded by Detroit. But there are farms within some central cities.
For many I feel like the counties or regions are more famous than any singular one city or town
NYC Area - Long Island, Westchester Co, and Fairfield Co (CT), and north Jersey. If I had to pick one I'd say Greenwich, CT. Plenty or urban anchor cities like Jersey City, Newark, White Plains, and Stamford.
LA Area - too many to list but first ones that come to mind Beverly Hills, Santa Monica, "the Valley/SFV", Burbank, Pasadena, the anchor cities like Anaheim & Long Beach, and then Orange County. I feel like the Inland Empire would get a shoulder shrug from most everyday people not living on the West Coast
Bay Area - with the notion of Oakland & San Jose as anchor cities, Berkeley, Palo Alto, & Marin County.
Seattle - Bellevue is the only one that has real recognition outside the PNW. Tacoma is an anchor city and perhaps Everett for the Boeing plant. The blue chip suburbs surround Bellevue (Mercer Island/ Clyde Hill/ Kirkland).
Chicago - Chicagoland is what first comes to mind - within it probably Evanston/North Shore, and Naperville
Detroit - Dearborn, Ann Arbor, and perhaps Gross Pointe.
DMV - Arlington, Alexandria, Bethesda, & Tysons.
Philadelphia - Main Line (would need to google municipalities on the Line), Bucks County sorta stands out
Boston - urban suburbs Cambridge/Somerville. Historic suburbs like Lexington & Concord. Inner Ring suburbs and beyond; locals will know Quincy, Waltham, Wellesley, Marblehead etc. It all bleeds into North Shore, South Shore, & Metro West which are the points of reference mostly used for Boston suburbs and exurbs.
Atlanta - North side of the city is where suburbs like Sandy Springs are considered the bee's knees. Buckhead we know is part of Atlanta, but has an uncanny resemblance of other edge city suburbs like Bellevue.
Miami/South Florida - Miami Beach, Fort Lauderdale, and West Palm Beach as anchor cities, Boca Roton is the suburb that jumps out.
DFW - Fort Worth known as the other anchor city after Dallas. Arlington and Plano are pretty well known.
Houston - Katy and Sugarland (kind of, more known by city nerds).
Raleigh- Cary (Containment area for relocated Yankees).
Phoenix - Scottsdale and Tempe feel like anchor cities for the Valley.
Denver - Boulder, and.... yep really that's it for famous burbs. Boulder being known as the famous college town. City nerds will know Aurora and perhaps Littleton for a tragic event.
Minneapolis - St Paul as the anchor city, Bloomington for a really big mall (MOA).
Impressed to see someone who doesn't appear to have ever lived in NC be familiar with Cary; let alone the tongue-in-cheek acronym moniker for it
I would've mentioned Compton but this forum tends to frown upon places that isn't ily white or "white washed" aka gentrified.
lol yup.
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