| When the neighborhood began to change, in the early eighties — when her son could no longer ride his bicycle around the corner without being pushed off it — she moved upstate, to Orange County, a burgeoning exurb. |
| Besides the single-family house, one of the most characteristic sights in the automobile exurb is the strip mall. |
| Increasingly, visible minority communities are moving from the urban core to suburb and exurb communities. |
| Economically speaking, the Commonwealth of Virginia is rapidly becoming an exurb of the District of Columbia. |
| Replete with a Cold Stone Creamery, Cheesecake Factory and that most American of stores, Costco, an enormous discount-store that sells everything in bulk, the complex could have been in any American exurb. |
| But the fastest-growing part of the state and the most Republican is the eastern panhandle, an exurb of distant Washington, DC, full of rich commuters and fast-rising property values. |
