Not everyone aspires to a quiet life in suburbia. But for those who do, it’s easy to describe them as desiring “a white picket fence” kind of existence. This particular type of property border has ...

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SOUTHINGTON, Conn. — Chipped paint and mildew be damned. The first job of the day was still a rare treat. Check out those New England-style post caps, the fence salesman thought, that classic ...

Beginning in the late 1940s, the white picket fence became synonymous with the American Dream. Lambert / Hulton Archive / Getty Images In little Taylor, Mississippi, outside Oxford, a developer named ...