Six-figure teachers are not unique to the New York suburbs.

He is a consultant to computer companies, with a good income and a spacious house in the New York suburbs.

The New York suburbs are not the only area of the nation where home rule is treasured.

In the New York suburbs, though, values have fallen perhaps 10 percent or more since last year.

But that standard of living would cost about $85,000 in the New York suburbs, and $135,000 in the city.

She took a job last fall at a public school in an affluent New York suburb.

Better than anyone, they know the odds, particularly for a kid from a New York suburb.

She is now 13 and lives in a New York suburb.

There are 9.7 million people in the New York suburbs.

And the problem is not limited to the New York suburbs.