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Exurban Suburbs City Towns Relating Region Settlement Lies

word exurban
definition Relating to a region or settlement that lies outside a city and usually beyond its suburbs and often is inhabited chiefly by well-to-do families.
eg_sentence Exurban areas typically show much higher education and income levels than closer-in suburbs or nearby rural counties.
explanation With its prefix ex-, (“outside of,” the noun exurb was coined around 1955 to describe the ring of well-off communities beyond the suburbs that were becoming commuter towns for an urban area. Most exurbs were probably quiet little towns before being discovered by young city dwellers with good incomes looking for a pleasant place to raise their children. Planners, advertisers, and political strategists today often talk about such topics as exurban development, exurban trends, exurban migration, and exurban voters
IPA exurban*

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