Middle Rock was the kind of suburb that no longer exists, a community defined by common ethics and values and populated by a variety of middle-to-upper-class people who moved to be among others who shared those same ethics and values. The problem of extremely wealthy people living amid a clamor of plain middle-class people—forcing those middle-class people to contend with not their enormous luck but their remaining dissatisfactions—was a problem solved with the 1990s proliferation of the McMansion. Suddenly the middle class had plenty of space inside their hollow stucco walls to store their
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