The overall message: Life isn't so terrible in the 'burbs.
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It's good to get out of the 'burbs now and again.
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It's also my home base downtown, since I live in the 'burbs.
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It was just another Saturday in the 'burbs, about five years back.
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Pitying single black mothers to appeal to white women in the burbs.
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By 1937, true to its name, it was big in the 'burbs.
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The 'burbs are not a bad setting for O.C.D. — serene, very few surprises.
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OK, the design is going to be a bit much for the 'burbs.
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And that has led buyers and builders to expand out east into the 'burbs.
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I figured at my mum's retirement party in the 'burbs I might be safe.
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All of these were outside where we are today, Washington, DC, and the burbs.
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Now (strange as it feels to say), I'm a married mom living in the 'burbs.
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Without anywhere else to go, she moves into her parents' vacant house in the 'burbs.
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The episode flashes forward 11 years, and Danny is a bored husband in the 'burbs.
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Sororities and fraternities got together, they had parties in the 'burbs, everybody had a party.
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In terms of Hanks' filmography, Turner & Hooch falls right between The 'Burbs and Joe vs.
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Not much happens in "Nietzsche and the Burbs," a peculiar new novel by Lars Iyer.
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In the burbs, you get more of that because people can escape in their cars.
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I hurry to meet my friend for dinner at a new restaurant out in the 'burbs.
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We're still not sure if that means the 'burbs or back to where our family is.
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Definitely a good time, but a long way from Couch's old comfy life in the 'burbs.
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Or are they going to eventually vacate cities for the 'burbs, just like every generation before them?
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Speaking of the 'burbs, my other prized piece of hardware is my black 2017 Toyota Sienna minivan.
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These kinds of compact, livable communities that crop up in less-dense areas have all sorts of names, like New Urbanism and "walkable urban places," but the one that's stuck recently is "urban burbs"—and the urban burbs are a new kind of hybridized place made just for millennials.
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But you also buy a Range if you want to tool around the 'burbs in Sloane Ranger style.
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"Districts that look like they could produce the most change ... are down in the Philly 'burbs," Madonna said.
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The Pistons have now relocated downtown but during the Bad Boys era they played out in the burbs.
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Everyone in there was wearing Burbs, Reebok Classics... Holly: Yeah the Crown & Thistle, our local pub in Oxford!
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Mom hails a cab to take us back to Penn Station, and we head back to the 'burbs.
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"It's probably the 'burbs for us," she added, noting that they are looking at homes in Westchester County.
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It's simply not possible to find that caliber of meal for $14 in the bougie 'burbs up Woodward Avenue.
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Growing up, I'd stay in Chicago part-time and the 'burbs (as my brother calls them) when I wasn't.
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"Nietzsche and the Burbs" sticks to the same formula, illuminating and gently mocking the ideas of its title subject.
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In The 'Burbs, Hanks plays a paranoid suburbanite who sets out to prove that his new neighbors are crazed killers.
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If rap music from the banlieues ("burbs") of Paris had an equivalent in Germany, it would defi nitely be Nimo.
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It's not that people don't want to be in the 'burbs, they just don't want to be in inflexible space.
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My friend's parents have a cute little house out in the 'burbs that feels like a getaway for us city kids.
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And since D.C.'s 'burbs are located in other states, there's nothing to balance out the high cost of urban living.
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So they turned their sights back to the Boston 'burbs, this time in search of a single-family home for rent.
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It's an affluent, highly educated and establishment-friendly district along Atlanta's northern 'burbs where Chamber of Commerce-type Republicans usually prevail.
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I do a lot of my reading on New Jersey Transit, rubbing shoulders with fellow journalist types heading to the burbs.
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At least Raskolnikov was sent to literal Siberia, and not the SoCal 'burbs with what looks like a heated backyard pool.
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It has been memorably deployed as a statement about feminism (The Stepford Wives) and the nature of conformity (The Burbs, Disturbia).
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The owner's a curly haired, husky white dude with tattoos, and his top chef is an equally tatted brunette from the burbs.
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And the winning national candidates are usually the ones who build a bridge to the 'burbs from their city or country bases.
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The narrator is an NYU alum from the Boston burbs; Billy is a community college guy from a small town in Illinois.
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The star-crossed lovers are joined by some neighborhood puppers from the 'burbs as well as the streets, and two creepy cats.
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Imagine The 'Burbs, but instead of Tom Hanks as the hero, it's the kids from The Monster Squad, and you've got the idea.
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It is, on average, 5 to 7 degrees Fahrenheit warmer in New York City than in the nearby 'burbs on any given evening.
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The bottom line: The "back to the 'burbs" trend won't happen across the board, and big cities will still attract young post-millennials.
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Wendy Schaal plays the blonde trophy wife Bonnie Rumsfield -- opposite Bruce Dern as Lt. Mark Rumsfield -- in the 1989 funny film 'The 'Burbs.
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She did this by winning over college-educated women in the 'burbs, along with energizing African-American voters and liberals in the party's base.
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I renew my car tabs, which expire tomorrow, and leave the car registered at my mom's address in the 'burbs because it's $80 cheaper ($89.75).
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Having overnighted in the burbs, I was due to deliver a guest lecture at the main university and I'd arrived downtown in plenty of time.
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She was among the many women who won competitive 2018 races; voters swept a record number of women (mostly Democrats) into office, many from the burbs.
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They both live in the Chicago 'burbs, but we like to joke that NYC is her second home — she visits three to four times a year!
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Then, in our Reboot section, we look back at two well-regarded comedies of the past: 1998's Waking Ned Devine and 1989's The 'Burbs.
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You throw stuff in the car if you're in the 'burbs, but in our world you have to carry everything, because we go everywhere by feet.
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To the Editor: Re "When Owning a Car Is a Quaint Memory," by Kara Swisher (Op-Ed, March 23): Has Ms. Swisher lived in the 'burbs?
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By The New York Times "I think we had all of the reasons that every young couple has when they move to the 'burbs," Ms. Tendick said.
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Now that he and his family live in the New York burbs, his second book is a humble, homesick reveal of what he really serves at home.
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O.K., technically, it's not in the city; it's in the main concourse of a minor-league baseball stadium in the burbs, about an hour and a half away.
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In Joe Dante's "The 'Burbs" (Wednesday), Tom Hanks, still in his comedy phase, is foremost among a group of friends who suspect that their new neighbors are murderers.
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The book's especially appropriate if you are holidaying in your hometown, maybe at the very blurred and balmy edge of early summer, and you grew up in the 'burbs.
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Overnight Mr. Peres went from two decades spent as a coveted presence at fashion shows and parties in the world's capitals to a divorced dad adrift in the 'burbs.
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NIETZSCHE AND THE BURBS By Lars Iyer A clique of misfit teenagers in suburban England sit on adulthood's cusp, lamenting their middle-class lives and fretting for their futures.
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Armand's Pizzeria: With a number of locations around the city and surrounding 'burbs, Armand's offers thin-crust pizza with a nice crunch, thanks to plenty of butter and cornmeal.
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One of my coworkers is in the process of buying a townhouse in the burbs, so we commiserate on the insane process that is becoming a first time home owner.
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For her, the choice to live in Milwaukee instead of, say, Chicago, or even its urban burbs, came down to more than just price (although that was a big factor).
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A web forum, ONISM1999, is blowing up with reports of a ghost spotted in a cavern just outside the 'burbs, and immediately every youngster is out hunting for the paranormal.
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Corporate America has fallen back in love with big cities, where a growing list of name firms like GE and McDonald's have announced they are moving their headquarters from the burbs.
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Then in 2012, the company went in the opposite direction, introducing urban Targets that measure around 100,000 square feet, compared with 20153,000 square feet for an average Target in the 'burbs.
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"He was the first to get out of the 'burbs and go to New York and live his fashion dream," said Cynthia Leung, a friend since Mr. Cho's high school years.
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It's an incredible tool if you know how to use it, but I've had to be That Person since about middle school when my family moved to the burbs on Long Island.
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Carrie Fisher is one of the funniest people in Hollywood, but her comedic talents are rarely used, which is why she's an outstanding feature of 1989's "The 'Burbs" with Tom Hanks.
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As soon as the summer term ended most folk promptly fucked off back to their 'home' lives, back to mates, parents and partners in whichever corner of the burbs they'd sprung from.
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We already knew that this is why millennials are avoiding places like New York and San Francisco and sticking to "urban burbs" on their outskirts or moving to mid-sized American cities instead.
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But for the immediate future, it is the hungry folk in the 'burbs and out in the sticks who will have first call on the drone-delivery option on their fast-food apps.
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West Thebarton Brothel Party may sound like a themed uni club night, but the band from Adelaide's burbs actually pays homage to garage greats like Eddy Current Suppression Ring and Thee Oh Sees.
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They let MUNCHIES tag along on a day trip to the 'burbs to eat at Wu's favourite strip mall Chinese restaurants, along with their baby boy as well as photographer Johnny CY Lam.
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You and your partner moved out to the 'burbs after having a kid because the three of you couldn't fit in your 600-square-foot apartment in the cool part of the city.
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The world of coffee can be both intimidating and difficult to access, but if you leave most urban environments and head into the burbs', sourcing good brew can become an even bigger challenge.
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We finally get the moving truck loaded and drive out to the 'burbs, but by now everyone is starving so we agree to take a break for a quick lunch before we attempt to unload.
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Two-and-a-half kids, the loving spouse, the sweet little home in the 'burbs with a nice white picket fence so the golden retriever (Daniel!) and run around the yard without a leash on.
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Even more cringeworthy are the exhumations of other '80s and '90s subcultures: pentagrams drawn on Trapper Keepers, unwieldy tubs of muscle powder, whiteboy ciphers drowning out Fugees CDs at backyard keggers in the ramifying burbs.
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We talk about where we want to buy — we've been saving for a down payment for years now, but can't decide if we want to stay in the city or go out further into the 'burbs.
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Ultimately, Hannah will probably get involved with another academic at the university where she works, but she will find the country life unfulfilling and eventually move back to the city — or at least to the 'burbs.
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Like me, I don't be here as much, and when I do, like I said I'm in the 'burbs so I don't come to the city as often like I used to and I don't party.
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The annual ridicule I get from my brothers, who live in the 'burbs, or friends in other states, about what I pay in NYC for a Christmas tree makes it embarrassing to talk about the experience.
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In May 2017, an Australian real estate agency made the same "Free Avo-Toast For a Year" offer to anyone who bought one of its $600,333 ($422,643 USD) two- or three-bedroom townhomes in the Brisbane 'burbs.
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It sort of feels like The Burbs, where Tom Hanks is just sitting around the house, like, I'll just sit around the house and relax and enjoy everything, but in reality he's actually making everybody around him go crazy.
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The greatest thing about going home to the 'burbs for a weekend with your parents is free laundry, parking your car in a garage that doesn't charge for the privilege, and visiting the massive Trader Joe's down the block.
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"I share witty, sanitized versions of depression, anxiety, and loneliness, which is better (maybe?) than not sharing at all," says Erin*, a 24-year-old English teacher living in "the burbs" (as she put it) who asked to remain anonymous.
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Horror fans — or more specifically, horror fans with very strange senses of humor — will be excited to learn that the Leprechaun franchise will be coming to the service in June, as will the original Stargate and the Tom Hanks comedy The 'Burbs.
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Buyers priced out of the city are heading for the 'burbs, driving up demand and creating a more fraught buying process in close-in towns that have long enjoyed reputations for good school systems, lively downtowns and ready access to the city.
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The space widows felt rejected after their husbands died, while still living in the closely knit community of astronaut families in the "space burbs" by the Manned Spacecraft Center (later the Johnson Space Center) in Houston, nicknamed "Togethersville" because of its exclusivity.
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" He continued, pivoting to Gyllenhaal skills in the kitchen, which apparently are so great that they rival those of his wife of five years, Blake Lively — a fact he decided to share on TV. "I live up in the burbs, and he comes over.
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If You've Already Seen It: Turner and Hooch or The 'Burbs — Just as the Afflecks have pivoted from their early roles, so has Tom Hanks, who reminds everyone why he has two Oscars in Clint Eastwood's Sully, which sees him delivering the dramatic goods once again.
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Mike Epps, stepping into the role originated by John Candy in the 1989 John Hughes film, plays a rascally hustler who brings the Chicago hood to the 'burbs when he becomes a "manny" for the kids of his brother (James Lesure) and sister-in-law (Nia Long).
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Witherspoon's Elena Richardson is again an upper-middle-class mom living in the 'burbs, one so tightly wound that she and her husband (Joshua Jackson) have a regular sex schedule from which she refuses to deviate, while imprinting her hopes and expectations on her four teenage children.
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In an attempt to figure out what life is like in the endless burbs of tarp and plastic that are the campgrounds, we took a tour to see what people come home to after a night watching Radiohead struggle against sound issues or creepily following Rihanna around the festival.
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But even as they establish new urban beachheads, business giants like G.E. are also changing the nature of their headquarters, staffing them with a few top white-collar employees and a smattering of digital talent, rather than recreating the endless Dilbert-like pods they once built in the 'burbs.
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Of course, many people who live in cities will still end up moving to the 'burbs at some point, and there are signs that the urban migration trend is slowing: From 2015 to 2017, population growth in cities overall slowed somewhat, while suburban areas gained, said Mr. Frey.
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Entertaining—real entertaining, not just inviting your buds over to share a joint and a bag of Doritos while watching Netflix—does not have to feel like you're playing the role of a '50's housewife hosting your ad exec husband's business associates for dinner in the 'burbs.
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In a way, sitting at those communal tables was a right of passage, a feeling that I had some sort of roots here, which was amplified by the fact that I actually knew how to order in the proper slang due to my years serving up Coneys in the burbs.
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"You go out to the burbs and then, you may have a cafeteria, and you may have two or three options, but that's it," said Ken Wincko, the chief marketing officer at WorkWave, a software company and one of the original tenants of BellWorks, who commutes 45 minutes from Morristown.
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It was the late '80s, and the director of hits like Innerspace and The 'Burbs was working on the long-awaited sequel to the biggest movie of his career: Gremlins, the 1984 creature-feature that made "don't feed them after midnight" an ominous national catchphrase and inspired mogwai-conservation efforts around the globe.
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More than 30 years after the aforementioned Michael Keaton movie, but the notion of a father being pressed into service wrangling his kids is still perceived to resonate -- and offers LeBlanc an opportunity to approximate what Joey from "Friends" might be currently doing had he married, procreated and moved to the 'burbs.
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In this week of Fisher's death, there is a bit of Star Wars over-saturation in the air, and thus an understandable desire to downplay Princess Leia as the centerpiece of her legacy—and there's so much else to highlight in her filmography: When Harry Met Sally…, The Burbs, The Blues Brothers, all just as seared into the collective pop culture memory.
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And while there may be someone on the invite list sounding off about the superiority of a vinegar-based sauce, you might be more focused on figuring out how to dress yourself for the particular BBQ that you'll be attending — because there's a big difference between showing up for a city cookout at your friend's backyard and driving to the 'burbs to meet your partner's family for the first time.
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Lama - Shao Lin dou La Ma (5/31)Super Dragon - Feng qi yun yong dou kuang lung (5/31)Suspiria (2018) (5/3)Tao tie gong (5/53)The 'Burbs (5/31)The Big Wedding (5/31)The Constant Gardener (5/31)The Doors (5/31)The Frozen Ground (5/23)The Ghostwriter (5/31)The Gift (5/31)The Letter (5/31)The Lonely Man (5/31)The People vs.
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The latest debacle to emerge from the team's abrupt decision to abandon their 20-year-old downtown stadium and head for the 'burbs occurred last weekend when it was reported that the Cobb County Commission—the five-person local governing body that approved the Braves' plan without public debate by standing in hallways to get around open-meetings laws—has determined that if county residents want to get the $218 million in new parks they voted for way back in 210, they'll have to raise taxes, because that money has now been siphoned off for the new baseball facility.
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Occupation: Senior ParalegalIndustry: LegalAge: 6Location: BostonSalary: $653,6 plus $6,45 bonus (My husband, N., makes about the same, but our accounts are separate)Paycheck Amount (2165x/week): $214 (after 2141.58(k) and other deductions)Gender Identity: Woman Monthly ExpensesMortgage: $2141.58,217 (for my half of a mortgage on a five bed, three bath house in the 'burbs that I split with N. and our collective four children, includes taxes and insurance; I share the house with my husband, my two kids from a previous marriage, and my two stepkids from my husband's previous marriage)Loans: $21500 (student loan and car loan is paid off)Utilities (water, gas, electric): ~$2162.53 for my halfCable/Cell: N. paysHealth Insurance: N. pays for a family plan which covers me, my kids are covered by their dadCell Phone: $2129 for five lines (N.
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