In my hometown of Boston, it would be nearly impossible, due to the fact that I live in the suburbs and the transit system is based on the same hub-and-spoke system the airlines employ.

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Growing up in the Detroit suburbs, I had never associated Purim with drinking.

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But, in the suburbs, we think of the suburbs as having - I don't know - kind of diversified economies.

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He then insisted I leave my new health care administration job in the city, so I found part-time work closer to our home in the suburbs.

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"My golf club is fantastic and in a really nice area, but whenever I've visited the suburbs, where it's less cosmopolitan, I've been given funny little looks, " he said.

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Living in the pot-hole-plagued traffic jam that is the suburbs of Brussels, I have a hard time understanding what they mean.

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Whatever suspicions I had about the benefits of a massive Christmas display in the middle of the Miami suburbs only intensified.

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