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...Family friendly is the buzz phrase now," says Sandy Franco, co-owner of the 15,000-member Franco's Athletic Club in Mandeville, La., a suburb of New Orleans. "A lot more owners are realizing it's good business. Parents love it. And if you're a teen or preteen, your friends are there or you can be on your own. It's hip. And there are a million things...
...actually talk much?John is as taciturn as Paul is chatty?the son says they're only truly at ease when they're together. The whole family is so tight-knit that Gazza bought five houses all next to each other on a street in the Newcastle suburb of Dunston so that his mother, father, two sisters and brother could live in a neat little row. His parents divorced years ago, but his mother still cooks dinner for his father every night. That makes Gazza's old man happy, but not as happy as watching his son practice. Looking over...
Quite frankly, I’m not very sympathetic with the locals—for future reference, if you want to live in a nice suburb with affordable housing where everyone goes to sleep at 11 p.m. and there’s no fear of your river view being blocked by a new academic monstrosity, don’t live under the shadow of the world’s richest, ever-expanding university. That’s like moving to New York City and complaining about traffic noise...
Cantor, now an English professor at Tufts and a MacArthur fellow, was raised in the New York suburb that once knew the debauchery of The Great Gatsby and later saw another kind of wealth—one which flooded in from Queens as second-generation American Jews did well for themselves after...
...Midwest is more picturesque than I had imagined, more diverse and not quite the sprawl of suburban family values from sitcoms like Family Ties (Columbus, Ohio) or Family Matters (Chicago, IL). My view of the Midwest is more like those John Hughes movies that take place in the fictional suburb of Chicago, Shermer, IL—average families living in average houses with kids just dysfunctional enough to be interesting, who after a day of adventure return home to a warm and fuzzy ending