suburbia
n.the area of land and houses that surround a city. It is usually quieter and has more space for gardens than the city center.
n.the residential areas that lie on the outskirts of a city. Often used to describe a specific social or cultural environment characterized by detached housing and a car-dependent lifestyle.
“Many families move to suburbia to find a bigger house.”
“After working in the crowded city center all week, he looked forward to the quiet of suburbia on the weekends.”
“The rapid expansion of suburbia during the mid-twentieth century fundamentally altered the urban landscape, shifting the economic and social gravity of the metropolis toward its periphery.”
PIE word *upó From suburb + -ia (suffix forming abstract nouns, the names of collections of things, etc.), perhaps modelled after Latin suburbia (“suburbs”), the plural of suburbium.
Etymology adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.