Do you ever miss the city all the way out there in the "burbs"?

一直住在上海的郊区会不会想念城市生活？

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Although they were out in the burbs, they wanted to keep a measure of the sheen of their downtown life - martinis on the veranda, not tea parties in the garden.

尽管在芳邻，他们想要保留城市生活的闪光的方法——在游廊上放马丁尼酒，而不是在花园里开茶宴。

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"The boy from the 'burbs", as he called himself in a recent BBC Radio Nottingham interview, has come a long way.

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However, a similar place in the 'burbs of Silicon Valley, San Francisco, Boston or Irvine would run at least twice as much.

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And author Miranda Sawyer, who grew up in Cheshire's Wilmslow - "a pink jumper, white stilettos kind of a town" - and wrote Park and Ride about suburban culture, says the 'burbs have always exerted a huge influence on mainstream society.

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