“It ideally aligns with the core American values of independence and private property.” He adds: “For better or worse, the image of the suburban house, complete with a white picket fence and ...

Everybody wanted a house with a picket fence.” But that could be any fence. How did a white wooden fence become synonymous with the American dream? In a piece for Smithsonian tracking the ...

When people think of living the American dream, many think of family and a home with a white picket fence. Although recently ...

She always wanted this traditional American symbol of home ownership ... everything about,” she says, “her dream house with the white picket fence.” “I just hope that another family ...

Words by Ambar Ramirez Ah, the ominous success sequence: graduate from college, land a good job, get married, buy a house and have children. The outdated formula that so many once came to America ...

It all just seemed like something he was supposed to do. “You’re saving to buy a house … because that’s just a standard you grew up with,” Fraser said. But as life returned to a new ...

consulting a financial adviser could be the first step toward living out your version of the American dream — with or without the white picket fence.

But I’ve never really seen the point of having that much space, that much surface area for a lawn and a pool and a playground, bordered by that quintessential white picket fence. But isn’t that the ...

Beginning in the late 1940s, the white picket fence became ... when many American households couldn’t afford to whitewash a fence, never mind an entire house. In Colonial times, a mixture ...