[kitkat_new]

> And also, there aren't really any places with just houses and no places of work, that doesn't really exist.

this is exactly what suburbs are.

You live there, nothing else. You wake up then you drive to work somewhere else

[plumarr]

That's maybe a cultural difference. For example I know of no such place in Belgium even if I'm quite well travelled in it. So it's a least really not common to have suburbs as you describes.