'suburbia' is a correct and usable word in written English.
You can use it to refer to the residential areas on the outskirts of a city or town. For example: After living in the hustle and bustle of the city, we decided to move to a quiet neighborhood in suburbia.
But the wunderkind, who runs the Donmar Warehouse theatre in London, was anything but blasé last night about the success of his dark satire on suburbia.
George's parents never actually spell out that they think he's gay (it's even hinted at one point they think he's got HIV) but the old cliches/truths of self-loathing, estrangement and awkward acceptance are lovingly played out within their cosy suburbia.
The once semi-rural idyll of suburbia might have faded under the weight of hollowed-out high streets and the urban ethnic mix but suburbia is a resilient place and all the better for its modern diversity.
As our train rumbles in through suburbia, Chris and I share our all-time understudy horror stories.
As a story of self-acceptance in stunted suburbia, Bad Neighbours has an improbable feminine companion piece in Stacie Passon's wryly pained and subtly erotic Concussion (Channel 4 DVD, 15).
To the end of the Metropolitan Line and Uxbridge station, the very heart of sweet suburbia.
I realised, I think, even at that early age that opportunities for imitative anarchical expression were going to be severely limited by my misfortune of having been born a particularly weedy girl in early 80s suburbia instead of a sturdy village boy 60 years earlier.
The film, a dark comedy about mid-life crisis and teenage angst in America's suburbia, directed by Britain's Sam Mendes, won awards for Best Drama, Director and Screenplay.
We should all look forward to the time when Chinese and Indian teenagers write sulky songs about the appalling dullness of suburbia.
Domhnall Gleeson (the son of Brendan Gleeson, the actor, and recently announced as a cast member in the seventh "Star Wars" film) plays Jon, a would-be musician and songwriter, writing bad songs about boring suburbia.
"When I was in art school, there was a stigma attached to coming from comfortable suburbia.
