The area within the city of Los Angeles known for vast suburban developement that houses nearly 2 million residents north of the Santa Monica Mountains. It includes the independant cities of Burbank, Glendale, San Fernando and Calabasas. Areas of "the Valley" within the political city of Los Angeles include Van Nuys, Northridge, Reseda, North Hollywood and Chatsworth. Life in the San Fernando Valley has been portayed in numerous movies providing stereotypes as the "Valley Girl." These "Valley Girls" are stereotyped as rich, arrogant, young woman who create phrases such as "as if", "like" or "gag me with a spoon."

The San Fernando Valley has made several failing attempts at seceeding from the city of Los Angeles. If these attempts were successful, the Valley would become its own municipality and among the largest cities in America.

Unlike going commando, which is to go without underwear, going suburban commando is to forgo pants altogether.

The pretentious E is often added to the end of words in place names to give a false sense of charm and history to an otherwise soulless, corporate-built craphole of a neighborhood, apartment complex, or shopping center.

Geographically, a large island formed by glacial till deposited by glaciers in the last ice age. Consists of the suburban counties of Nassau and Suffolk, along with the New York City boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens, with a total population of around 7 million.

Regionally/Politically, just Nassau and Suffolk counties, the eastern four-fifths of the geographical Long Island, with a population of 2.5 million. This is the most common use of the term.

Until the explosion of suburban development following World War II, Long Island was a geographically diverse region, with beaches, hills, woods, praries (yep), petrified forests (that, too), and small, idyllic fishing and farming villages. Now, the landscape is dominated by suburban towns and unincorporated communities that range in population from a couple hundred to around 50,000 people. Beach resort/bedroom communities like The Hamptons are extremely popular with downstate in the summer months. In addition, Jones Beach is a popular recreational and music venue, while Fire Island is world-famous as a gay mecca and a historic nautical community.

The Woodlands is a census-designated place and master-planned community located in the extraterritorial jurisdiction of Houston within Montgomery County, Texas. As of the 2000 census, the CDP had a total population of 55,649.Located about 30 miles north of Downtown Houston, The Woodlands is famous, as its name suggests, for incorporating the piney woods surrounding it with urban and suburban development. It was named one of the best master-planned communities in the country, and is one of the fastest-growing communities in Texas. The Woodlands is home to the Woodlands Town Center Improvement Distrct, a local governmental agency created by the Texas Legislature, The Woodlands Waterway, the 4 AAA Diamond Woodlands Waterway Marriott Hotel and Convention Center, the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion, and The Woodlands Country Club, the only golf club in the nation to have six world-class golf courses. Almost all of the community is located in the city of Houston's extraterritorial jurisdiction (ETJ) with a small portion lies in the corporate limits of Shenandoah.The Woodlands was founded by George P. Mitchell in 1974, who changed ownership of The Woodlands in the 1990's to a joint partnership between Morgan Stanley and Crescent Real Estate Equities. In January of 2004, Crescent sold their interest in The Woodlands to the Rouse Company, a development company familiar with master-planned communities. In 2004, the Rouse Company was sold to General Growth Properties Inc., another sh...

A suburban location that is characterized visually by extreme blandness that causes its residents to feel bored and depressed, and behave in uninteresting ways.

A sparsely populated area, that is currently making the transition from rural to suburban, located usually on the fringes of a metropolitan area. Often times, it may be populated by wealthy estates, hobby farms, as well as existing rural towns, and usually with larger, more-mainstream suburban development on the brink of happening.