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I would've mentioned Compton but this forum tends to frown upon places that isn't ily white or "white washed" aka gentrified.
It's still (in)famous, though...although mainly in a negative connotation among the general public.
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Henderson is the suburb I’ve heard the most about as well. Especially because it’s big enough to land on most City lists at well over 250,000+ people.
North Las Vegas is interesting because what I’ve heard of it I definitely as negative as much as it is positive.
Katy is well known but because we are largely unincorporated we are kind of missing from a significant amount of online news coverage and lists etcetera. But because we aren’t as defined by city limits, such a large area is known collectively as Katy, and it’s approaching 400,000 people now.
Places like Katy (or Sugar Land) or Round Rock or Plano/Arlington/Frisco/(insert yet another giant DFW suburb) are somewhat known in Texas, but I'm not sure how well they're really known outside. But the same can be said even for many other metro areas.
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L.A. wins by a million - Beverly Hills, Bel Air, Santa Monica, Pasadena, Anaheim.
Cannot really name NYC suburbs - Long Island everyone hears about and the Hamptons
New Jersey is supposed to have some really nice burbs, but you never hear names
Chicago in the 80s/early 90s John Hughes movies North Shore that kids nowdays have no idea about
The most famous Jersey "burbs" for NYC is probably Hoboken, Jersey City, and Newark (if you count them as suburbs). Also places like Princeton NJ (although mainly b/c of the university), again if you count that as a suburb.
Near Philly perhaps Camden and Cherry Hill...the former if you count it as a suburb, the latter is probably the most well known NJ burbs of Philly.
If anything Philly doesn't have ultra famous individual burbs...maybe King of Prussia just b/c of the giant mall.
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Despite having very little name recognition, Paradise, NV and (to a lesser extent) Winchester, NV are two Las Vegas "suburbs" that have more "famous" attractions than the overwhelming majority of places listed so far.
Paradise is probably the most visited burb that people didn't know they visited. Bay Lake FL (along with Lake Buena Vista FL or Celebration FL) falls in the same category.
Lol you're still at it with this concept? You're the only that thinks of it in that way, the rest of the country is thinking about turkey, ham, Indians and Pilgrams.
As opposed to believing Americans know where Desperate Housewives set being a reasonable expectation
What was a suburb in the past is not necessarily how Americans see suburbs today. Boston has lovely towns around its core, but they are not necessarily the sort of places that most Americans envision a suburb to be. Omitting Boston's suburbs isn't necessarily an insult in that context.
By any stretch a place like concord or Lexington is a traditional suburb.
I don’t think Boston suburbs are famous because suburbanites in Boston are quick to say they’re from Boston. And there’s not much of note in the suburbs in terms of practical reasons to be there or set a movie/tv show there. They’re too sleepy to be notable unless it’s actually a city like Lowell or Cambridge.
By any stretch a place like concord or Lexington is a traditional suburb.
I don’t think Boston suburbs are famous because suburbanites in Boston are quick to say they’re from Boston. And there’s not much of note in the suburbs in terms of practical reasons to be there or set a movie/tv show there. They’re too sleepy to be notable unless it’s actually a city like Lowell or Cambridge.
Waterloo or Ypres Belgium aren’t exactly an exciting place but are quite famous.
Lexington and Concord are very famous I’d say more so than any suburb outside LA. I also think it’s impossible to ignore Salem is an international tourist desintation
And you could eat Salem is a city, but if it is so are most LA “suburbs”. Most famous ones have like 100,000 people
For Boston, I think almost everybody heard of Lexington, Concord and Salem and maybe Plymouth. After that you got Marblehead and Quincy. The suburbs in the Boston area are some of the nicest in the country.
But I am not sure if that is what the OP was looking for or not. He seems to be looking for suburban regions or at least counties, not individual towns.
For Boston, I think almost everybody heard of Lexington, Concord and Salem and maybe Plymouth. After that you got Marblehead and Quincy. The suburbs in the Boston area are some of the nicest in the country.
But I am not sure if that is what the OP was looking for or not. He seems to be looking for suburban regions or at least counties, not individual towns.
No way. I’ll give you Salem and Plymouth because of what kids learn in school, but I’m sure most don’t know they’re “suburbs” of Boston? Unless you’re from the region, have family there, visited, etc, I don’t think anyone knows of Lexington and Concord? Although this could be said about most listed in this thread that aren’t household names like Beverly Hills, Bel Air, etc.
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