| While the expansion of the suburbs is nothing new, a surge in home prices over the past several years has supercharged the trend, pushing homebuyers across the country farther out from city centers to areas where land is cheaper and more plentiful and barriers for developers tend to be lower. At the forefront of that trend is Celina, Texas, where a housing boom has replaced pastures with densely packed homes, golf carts zip around planned communities where tractors once plowed, and local businesses are being replaced with big-box chains. |
