Rat race

[…] a 1950s-ish town, keeping a sense of community far from the superhighway rat race.

Forget about the rat race / Let's do the Milkshake / Selling like a hotcake

I was running away […] from my inability, although I am quite an attractive rat, to make headway in the rat-race.

Echoing Allen Ginsberg, he contends that the suburban setting of “Father Knows Best” is most accurately seen as America's “ludicrous breeding ground for the young meat who will be fed into its wars and rat races and inhuman conformities.”