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- noun Plural form of
boomburb .
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Examples
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It's the newest city in America with more than 100,000 people," says Lang, who coined the term "boomburbs."
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It's the newest city in America with more than 100,000 people," says Lang, who coined the term "boomburbs."
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No matter what you call them, these boomburgs/boomburbs, where foreclosure vultures have swooped in to buy distressed properties, dot the American landscape and serve as a distressing counterpoint to what seems like a very different time. —
Forlorn, foreclosure-heavy housing developments a sign of the times 2010
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No matter what you call them, these boomburgs/boomburbs, where foreclosure vultures have swooped in to buy distressed properties, dot the American landscape and serve as a distressing counterpoint to what seems like a very different time.
Forlorn, foreclosure-heavy housing developments a sign of the times 2010
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—Gian TrottaEssential information: "Buzzword: Reburbia" details how other distressed residential properties, like those in America's boomburbs/boomburgs, might being transformed.
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Gian TrottaEssential information: "Buzzword: Reburbia" details how other distressed residential properties, like those in America's boomburbs/boomburgs, might being transformed.
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Appropriately enough, President Barack Obama held a town-hall meeting in Fort Myers, Florida, last week and lowered the boom on boomburgs/boomburbs.
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New-home sales in this country are down 77 percent from their 2005 peak and sit at their lowest level in four decades, and boomburbs like Henderson have been particularly hard hit in the real-estate meltdown.
By the Numbers: Prices and sizes of homes fall in the downward-spiraling housing market 2009
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With the explosion of boomburbs/boomburgs nationwide, what's happening in Victorville could spread to other areas, so don't be surprised to see Teardown 2.0 launch in your town. —
Buzzword: Teardown 2009
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The housing meltdown contributed reburbia, a move to find new uses for all those McMansions in cookie-cutter boomburgs/boomburbs now exposed to teardown and foreclosure vultures.
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