So I’m only recently appreciating how much of the ‘80s concept of “the suburbs” was specifically Long Island/the San Fernando Valley/Chicagoland.

The notion was everywhere as the new default location, but the '80s Reagan reenchantment (and then-dawning Boomer nostalgia) also went big on small towns, it was hard for me to say which one my hometown was – it dated to the Colonial era, but people went in every day to Philly jobs (we’d had commuter rail since the early 20th century)

Really we were an exurb, but that term didn’t really break through until the late '90s (and more specifically “favored quarter” only later)

In the '90s “raves” could be a thing, even suburban kids went to them! Like, maybe inner “suburban”, for a lot of us who were otherwise culturally centered “the warehouse district” did not exist as a part of our world at all