This paper draws on the case of suburban, new town Almere in the metropolitan region of Amsterdam to cast light upon the changing suburban-urban relationship, by investigating the mobility to and from Almere for two decades through municipal data. We demonstrate that Almere has developed from a typically suburban family community in the 1980s, to nowadays a receiver of both international unmarried newcomers and families, emphasizing alternative types of mobilities emerging in concert to the more typical suburban migration. The town’s transformation challenges the urban-suburban dichotomy, pointing to alternative explanations of contemporary urban growth and metropolitan integration.