The white picket fence has become a cliché for suburbia. Blame archers. AMAZING FACTS; ... It was a motif that was perpetuated as time went on before a new trend—the fence-free home—took off.

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 ...

People may still want the proverbial white picket fence and yard, but the 2.5 kids? For a certain sector of Millennials and Gen Zers, the dream isn’t family, but freedom. Over on your TikTok ...