bedroom suburb
Example Sentences
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The deluge is turning a historically modest urban enclave into something on the order of a commuters' bedroom suburb — albeit one with amenities galore and a cost of living to match.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 28, 2016
But it is now a bedroom suburb for Columbia, the state capital 30 miles to the southeast.
From New York Times • Dec. 28, 2012
The popular picture of the commuter is of a man wending his way daily from bedroom suburb to city office.
From Time Magazine Archive
The bedroom suburb, the new epicenter of U.S. population, owes its existence to the highway which whisks the suburbanite from home to downtown job.
From Time Magazine Archive
