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What makes a suburb a suburb? Simply, a suburb is a community lyingsurroundinglocatingbasing surrounding a city. But when you picture a suburb in your mind, your image may vary widely depending on which nation you call home. In the United States, most consider the suburbs home to upper— and middle—class people with private homes. In other countries, like France, the suburbs—or “banlieues”—are anonymousantonymoussyntheticsynonymous synonymous with housing projects and impoverished communities. In fact, the banlieues of Paris are notoriousfamousimproperscandalous notorious for their ethnic violence and crime, with higher unemployment and more residents living in poverty than in the city center. Further, the banlieues have a much higher youngimmigrantseniorjunior immigrant population, which in Paris is mostly Arabic and African immigrants. This contradicts the clichéd U.S. image of a typical white-picket-fence suburb.