Someone whose too hillbilly for snobbier suburbanites, too country for city dwellers to accept, and too city for country folk. Symptoms someone may be a burb
billy: they may have, or
dream of having, backyard chickens or goats. They garden in any part of the yard they want to. They
don'
t really care about the clovers in their lawn, or weeds in their gardens- they might even replace gardens or lawns with wildflowers. They are just as ready to go boating or fishing for
bass as they are to parallel park in a
trendy neighborhood downtown for brunch. They would much rather repair their own rustbucket than have someone do it for them, and likewise for anything they own- often resulting in houses waiting for a day off of work for a fresh coat of paint or similar maintenance duties, 'out of code' additions such as a two story
deck, bonfire pits, forges, garages, etc. They have a natural enemy in HOAs. Often they were residents of the area
long before the suburbs developed.
"My mom moved into a new neighborhood, but turns out her neighbor is a burb
billy. My dad likes to drink
beer with him, but my mom hates his overgrown lawn and thinks his truck needs to get off the jackstands and to a mechanic already."
"I was walking to a street festival when some burb
billy rolled by in a rustbucket pickup blasting "Country Boy Can Survive". He somehow parked it better than I can park my Civic"
