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 | | This practice gave rise to the term bedroom community or dormitory, meaning that most daytime business activity took place in the city, with the working population leaving the city at night for the purpose of going home to sleep. |
 | | After the rise of "Levittowns" across the United States in the 1960s and 1970s, many American teens born during those decades began to describe the inherently sanitized and disspiriting nature of American suburbs. |
 | | In Britain, television series such as The Good Life, Butterflies, and The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin depicted suburbia as well-manicured but relentlessly boring, and its residents as either conforming their behaviour to this situation or going stir crazy through its regimented blandness. |
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