bedroom community

noun

: a small community that has no major industries and that is lived in by people who go to another town or city to work

They live in a bedroom community just outside of the city.

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Mira Mesa is a postwar bedroom community that was developed in part to serve personnel based at adjacent military facilities now known as Marine Corps Air Station Miramar. —

Dennis Romero, NBC News, 16 Dec. 2024 As such, this weekend will serve as a homecoming for the school’s new sports czar, who was born and raised in a bedroom community 43 miles north of 30 Rock. —

Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 22 Nov. 2024 That may look like incentivizing Live-Work planning that would bring the right mix of business to our bedroom community. —

Heather McRea, Orange County Register, 4 Oct. 2024 Originally an agricultural and mining town, Carbondale began to have its home values pulled more and more upward by nearby Aspen, eventually becoming a bedroom community to Aspen. —

Andrew Depietro, Forbes, 26 Sep. 2024 See all Example Sentences for bedroom community

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