Where you live when you dont want to live in the
inner city. It's a place of mostly middle-class homes, Walmart,
soccer moms, SUVs, strip malls and the homes of corporate bigwigs. Suburbs in the
United States began to spring up during the post WWII years as families left the central cities for a quieter, safer and more relaxed lifestyle. However some suburbs are just as poor as the inner-city itself. According to the US census, the number of persons living in the suburbs now outnumbers those in the central cities.