Exurban
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Where people live who drive an hour to a well paying job.
Where your neighbors house is 100 ft from your own and both are 50 meters (164.[041] feet) from the road.
Where gated communities are built with 2 acre lots and the [homeowners association] is constantly in fear of non-conformity and people using that land to grow their own food as well as any landscape which is reverting to its natural state.
Where your neighborhood centers around a golf course and the closest retail is 4 miles (6.43737 km) away
Where your zip [codes] tallest building rises 2 storeys and the population density never goes beyond 1,000 people per square mile.
Where rich white people go in order to avoid ethnic minorities, same thing with their country clubs.
Where the water table is irreversibly contaminated by all the lawn chemicals the residents use.
Where the treeless lawn surrounding ones [ranch house] is used for parking, sports, and an area where ones many dogs and children can run wild and wreck havoc.
Areas idealized by people like Frank Lloyd Wright and Joel Garreau (writer of Edge Cities).
Areas reviled by people such as Paolo Soleri and James Howard [Kunstler].
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