penturbiaEtymologyFrom pent- + suburbia, coined by Jack Lessinger in 1987 to refer to the fifth American migration.nounSmall towns that lie beyond city suburbs, viewed collectively.“The exodus to penturbia will be the fifth (“pent” comes from the Greek word for five) great migration since the Revolutionary War, Lessinger says. The first came between 1760 and 1789 when vast numbers of folks left the more established colonies—Virginia, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania—for the unrefined open spaces of places such as North Carolina, Vermont, New Hampshire. Economic depression fostered”