middletown

noun (sometimes lowercase)

1. a typical American town or small city with traditional values and mores.

noun

1. a township in E New Jersey.
2. a city in SW Ohio, on the Miami River.
3. a city in central Connecticut, on the Connecticut River.
4. a city in SE New York.
5. a town in SE Rhode Island.
6. a town in E Pennsylvania.

“typical U.S. middle class community,” 1929. The U.S. Geological Survey lists 40 towns by that name, not counting variant spellings.