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"Where we live is funny," says Sullivan, who has made pandora charmsit her hobby and business to tweak the hyper-competitive overclass pandora jewelry and Sullivan is something like its Jeff Foxworthy: You know you're in Snoburbia when . . .

"People in Snoburbia want to have a dog that's different from everybody else's dog," Sullivan says. "I heard a guy say yesterday: 'Oh, you know this is a curly-haired retriever? Nobody knows that.' He sounded mildly disappointed."

Snoburbia is where graphing calculators are status symbols, families go on Freecycle.com to swap designer baby strollers for TV sets for the au pair's room and teenagers bug their parents for extra gas money ("the Mercedes needs premium, Mom").

It's more of a state of mind than a place, says Sullivan, an amateurpandora charm social anthropologist who studied English and journalism at "decidedly non-snoburban" West Virginia University. Pockets of Snoburbia are everywhere, and snoburbanites don't need to live in the actual suburbs: Look at Northwest Washington and you'll find them, she says. It's an international phenomenon, too: Sullivan first saw the word "snoburb" online, in reference to the burbs of Melbourne, Australia.

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