dormitory town BrE
bedroom community AmE

Rural villages quickly become dormitory towns with no sense of community.

Many people who live in Gosport use it as a dormitory town.

In consequence it has long been popular as a dormitory town for commuters.

Since 1945, it serves mostly as a dormitory town for the larger towns in the area.

It is essentially a dormitory town, mostly consisting of apartments.

Some day, who knows, we'll have a grand new dormitory town built on that land.'

The area, which now has a population exceeding 80,000 is mostly a dormitory town for Belfast.

The village serves mostly as a dormitory town for nearby Carlisle.

The second half of the 20th century saw its role as a dormitory town for Belfast become more important.

The dormitory towns are the bleakest places you'll see this side of prison.

But most recently people have moved from the city centres to new houses in the suburbs, or to dormitory towns.

They function to some extent as dormitory towns for householders who work in London.

It is used mainly as a dormitory town for various workers who work in the regional capital and its environs.

A dormitory town for maintenance crews who worked the inland oil and gas pipelines.

It is a primarily rural residential town that has dormitory town status.

Kilcock is a dormitory town for many of those who work in Dublin.

The town is both a tourist centre and a dormitory town for Barcelona.

Of course it may be a big development or even one of these new dormitory towns by now.'

However in more recent times the town has undergone many changes, and is now more of a dormitory town.

This is both dormitory town and harbour city.

Kenilworth, however, is a prosperous dormitory town and leans towards the Conservatives.

At this time, work started on building new factories and industrial areas, to avoid the town becoming a dormitory town.

The dominant interest represented on the Conservative backbenches is that of the dormitory town and the metropolitan county.

Over the past forty years people have moved out of the cities and into dormitory towns and suburbs.

The city is now a large "dormitory town" with little community life, devoid of a "centre" of its own.

During this time, the city was more of a bedroom community.

But in our small bedroom community, it seems we got stuck.

Taken together, they help make the place more hometown than bedroom community.

The town still serves as a bedroom community for local industry.

It is a bedroom community for people working in Paris.

Because of this, it is considered to be a bedroom community to these cities.

The modern economy is primarily that of a bedroom community.

The Valley was the city's bedroom community in more ways than the obvious.

However, it eventually became the city's most exclusive bedroom community.

"A bedroom community is not a good place to retire to," she said.

"Being in a small, bedroom community, you think it can never happen.

This has opened the city up and helped to establish it as a true bedroom community.

Today it's a full-fledged bedroom community of the big city to the south.

San Francisco is not a bedroom community catering to the traditional family.

The city is also a bedroom community for the Tokyo metropolitan area.

It's almost entirely a bedroom community, as there are few companies located in the area.

The city became a bedroom community and industrial job center following postwar growth.

It was truly a bedroom community up until the mid to late 80s.

It is also fast becoming a bedroom community of Charlotte.

It became a bedroom community for Detroit workers, with most of its growth in housing from 1920-1951.

And the neighborhoods here do not have the deserted feel of a bedroom community during the day, because many women stay home with young children.

The town, 18 miles south of Hartford, became a thriving bedroom community.

On the other side of the river is Rabat's bedroom community.

And in a bedroom community where families are the norm, they said, it is especially hard to meet people after a divorce.

The coach is the glue that holds the small bedroom community together.