bedroom suburb

The city manager, Joshua A. Smith, arrived in 2010 from Howard, Wis., a bedroom suburb of Green Bay, another struggling Rust Belt city.

Once a bedroom suburb for the thousands of federal workers hired to work in the District during World War II, Arlington County is consistently one of most sought-after areas in the country.

Some pundits say the new lawmakers are a belated reflection of the changing demographics of Montgomery, which has evolved from a largely Caucasian bedroom suburb into a majority minority community with a population of more than 1 million that is one-third foreign-born.

The deluge is turning a historically modest urban enclave into something on the order of a commuters' bedroom suburb — albeit one with amenities galore and a cost of living to match.

Aurora Mayor Steve Hogan has long touted Aurora’s growing force as the third-largest city in Colorado and not simply a bedroom suburb of metro Denver.