cultural question

[miconazole.livejournal.com]

Hey guys, does the concept of suburbia exist in Russian? I'm looking for a word for "suburbs", but the closest I've got is "пригород" which doesn't seem to mean exactly the same thing. What would you call something that looks like this?



I think most Russians probably don't live in places like these (while almost everyone in Australia does) so is it better to say австралийский пригород or американский пригород to distinguish them from the Russian пригороды which seem to just be smaller cities?

Comments

[miconazole.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I noticed that searching for коттедж only turns up pictures of giant baroque monstrosities. Including some, ah, interesting architectural designs, I mean come on, do you really want your house to look like some 14th century cottage on steroids? Hehe.