Your city & its suburbs: how do they relate?

There is a vast difference between the way that US cities relate to their suburbs (and the suburbs relate to the city in return). Detroit has a reputation of a most difficult relationship with racial divide, resentment for each other, and an 8 mile divide between the two that is a real divide. Chicago's suburbs tend to have a strong relationship with the city; in fact, real estate prices in close in suburbs escalate due to proximity to Chicago; the reverse relationship tends to be good, although an air of superiority on the part of city dwellers definitely exists. Manhattan is known for a psychological divide not only from its suburbs, but from the outer boroughs as well. San Francisco, in some respects, has no suburbs, insofar as the distinct subregions within the Bay Area (SF, East Bay, Marin, Peninsula, Silicon Valley/SJ, etc.) each tends to be a world unto itself. Juristricton issues (DC, MD, VA) affect Washington and its suburbs relationship.

How is it in your city? How do city people feel about suburbia? And the reverse relationship? Does the commute tend to be into the city? or out? or really two way? Do city people access suburbia for any reason? Do suburbanites like to come downtown? Which is stronger: escaping the city or wanting to move back into it?>