“City and country dwellers usually have sharp images of their environments, but suburbanites express some difficulty when asked to describe the communities in which they live. They tend to paint an image of suburbia as a middle landscape. Suburbanites delight in not being part of the city, but they know they are not country or small town either...Perhaps this hazy image is because suburbs are often defined by being contrasted with the clearer vision of the city or country.” (98)

(Palen, J. John. The Suburbs. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1995. Print.)