The myth-image of suburbia: “This image sees the suburbs as the habitat of the middle or upper middle class--not of the upper class and not of the lower class, or the lower middle class either. Such “typical” suburbanites undertake long commutes from home to offices each day; they drink a little too much on weekends; they have no servants (but perhaps a once-a-week cleaning woman)...” (45-46)

(Donaldson, Scott. The Suburban Myth. New York: Columbia University Press, 1969. Print.)