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* Privet Drive in the ''HarryPotter'' series, at least if the Dursleys are typical residents and what little we hear about the neighbors more-or-less implies they are. The Dursleys' attempts to appear as normal (read: boring) as possible are PlayedForLaughs and, of course, complicated by the fact that Harry is secretly a wizard.

* An issue of ''ShadeTheChangingMan'' featured StepfordSuburbia created by a man who had created a madness-powered machine that turned people "normal". He started as a HeteronormativeCrusader with mild racism and an inablility to understand young people, but as his madness increased, his definition of "normal" grew even narrower ("You take milk in your coffee, right, Joe?")

* An issue of ''ShadeTheChangingMan'' featured StepfordSuburbia created by a HeteronormativeCrusader who had created a madness-powered machine that turned people "normal". As his madness increased, his definition of "normal" grew narrower ("You take milk in your coffee, right, Joe?")

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* The surface world in ''{{Texhnolyze}}''. Everything is picture-perfect cross of early 20th century aesthetics and high technology, but everything is slightly too perfect: birdsong is heard all around, but no birds are visible, the roads are too straight and buildings too perfect - almost like setpieces in a giant miniature railwroad display - and flowers wither from the slightest touch. The people who call themselves Theonormals eliminated all aggression from their ranks by exiling everybody with genetic tendency towards violence into the underground city of Lukuss, but in result they've degenerated into living dead who barely seem real, flickering like ghostly shadows due to some unknown technology at their disposal, and don't care about anything, even their own life or death.

* The new ABC series ''TheGates''.

StepfordSuburbia is the sister-city to the UncannyVillage, and both are located in the CrapsaccharineWorld. Its residents include PrettyWhiteKidsWithProblems, TheBeautifulPeople and, of course, the StepfordSmiler.

* The town in ''EdwardScissorhands'' was very much the creepy little 1950-60s town.

* ''TheStepfordWives''.

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* The new ABC series TheGates.

* Where Dexter moves to in series 4.

* BlueVelvet

* Privet Drive in the ''HarryPotter'' series, at least if the Dursleys are typical residents and what little we hear about the neighbors more-or-less implies they are.

* Privet Drive in the ''HarryPotter'' series, at least if the Dursleys are typical residents of the neighborhood and what little we hear about them more-or-less implies they are.

* Privet Drive in the ''HarryPotter'' series, at least if the Dursleys are typical residents of the neighborhood and what little we hear about them more-or-less implied they are.

* Privet Drive in the ''HarryPotter'' series, at least if the Dursleys are typical residents of the neighborhood and it's more-or-less implied they are.

* Privet Drive in the ''HarryPotter'' series, at least if the Dursleys are typical residents of the neighborhood and it's implied more-or-less they are.

* The town in PrettyLittleLiars.

*** Or note that the HollywoodCalifornia entry is explicitly describing the way ''Holywood portrays California'' rather than how it actually is. Orange County is highly sub-urbanized and generally politically conservative but, just like everywhere else, the people who live there are varied and pretty much like the people who live everywhere else (ie: they're people).