suburb
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For more than a year, Modica’s upscale Boston suburb has stalled on complying with a Massachusetts law requiring towns with transit access to allow more housing.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 8, 2026
Guillermo Ramos remembers seeing few elected leaders who looked like him while he was growing up in the 1980s in Farmers Branch, a fast-growing affluent suburb northwest of Dallas.
From Salon • May 7, 2026
In early February, an MK30 drone making a delivery hit the side of an apartment building in a suburb of Dallas in Texas.
From BBC • May 6, 2026
After all his travels, he has confided that his favourite place remains Richmond, an affluent and leafy suburb in southwest London.
From Barron's • May 6, 2026
I knew her by sight: Mrs. Bierens de Haan whose home in the suburb of Bloemendaal was said to be one of the most beautiful in Holland.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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