We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. There's something so undeniably charming about a white picket fence. It's the classic symbol of the American dream for a reason — it's ...

Carol Self was a renter 16 years ago when she moved to the house on Jefferson Street in Old Mandeville, but that didn’t stop her from planting a garden.

So you’ll start out with a waist-high fence and have a full-fledged privacy fence in two or three years. A bundle of ten one- to two-foot trees costs about $170 to $180 .

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A white picket fence was easy shorthand for fictional families in film and on television: Upper middle-class, prosperous, mannered. Neighborhoods wanted to reflect the kind of wholesomeness ...

Montclair, at 36th on the list, and Ridgewood, at No. 41, were the top choices in the Garden State for a so-called "white picket fence" lifestyle, according to a survey from DatingNews.com.

The other Garden State towns to make the list were Montclair, which came in 36th, and Ridgewood, which came in 41st. Greenville, South Carolina, was named the most sought-after white picket fence ...

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 ...