But these are American problems, not suburban ones.

The city is an island of Democratic voters in a sea of increasingly conservative rural and suburban ones.

ATMs can be found in most downtown stations and even some suburban ones.

Urban warehouses are usually heated while suburban ones are not.

Indeed, just as the study showed significant progress among big-city districts, it also demonstrated the degree to which they still trailed wealthier suburban ones.

The same self-esteem and competence sailing sometimes imparts to troubled youths from the city can work for the suburban ones, too.

The school funding fight pits black and poor city children against white and middle-class suburban ones.

Students also have mixed feelings about linking the city's schools with suburban ones.

What happens in small private high schools or competitive suburban ones, where students with stellar SAT's do not make the top 10 percent?

Experts do not know exactly why whites in rural areas and some suburban ones prefer the drug.