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Uptown, downtown are both used in New Zealand.
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>Uptown, downtown are both used in New Zealand. ...to mean the same thing? http://home.mn.rr.com/wwftd/
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To give you a definite answer, well, yes and no. Uptown is used in Auckland, and it literally means the higher part of the central city. There are buses which are signed "Uptown" and "Downtown". In Dunedin, where I was dragged up, "downtown" was literal. Most of the 'burbs are on hills while the central city is on the foreshore (and beyond it once the reclamation projects were finished).
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In Buffalo, NY, you can go downtown, but not uptown. There just isn't that distinction here. Are there other large cities that have either one or the other, but not both?
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Detroit has a downtown (not much of one, unfortunately), but no uptown that I'm aware of. My mother's hometown of Mt. Carmel, PA, on the other hand, had an uptown but no downtown. Wonder how different places came to use the different terms to refer to the same part of their town, eg, business/shopping/entertainment district - while other places use both, referring to two distinct areas of the city. Suppose the answer's lost in the mists of time....
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Hyla, it is lovely to have you back. Louisville has downtown only.
CK, would you please elaborate on what a foreshore is? And, is there an aftshore?
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Cinci has a downtown, which is an appropriate name because it's down in a valley compared to the rest of the city. Then directly north across the boulevard that was once a canal lies riot central (Over the Rhine), certainly not uptown. Then north of that is, in succession, University of Cincinnati (home base), the zoo, and Xavier University.
So I guess Cinci doesn't have an uptown. I suppose there are areas that could be described as an uptown, but they have specific names. Mount Adams is a fairly high class village-like community to the east overlooking downtown. It's the home of the art museum, a contemporary theater and a nice park, but it's never called uptown.
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CK, would you please elaborate on what a foreshore is?
Oh, that's easy. we have those here in california. it's like, when you're like *totally positive about something. mmmhmm.
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caradea: augh! Oh, that was SO bad! 
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In Montréal, in English, we have a downtown but no uptown.
In Montréal, in French, the same region is know as centre ville...the centre of the city.
In Laval, the island city right beside Montréal, when you say you're going to the city it means you're going to Montréal; even though Laval is a city too.
Because Montréal is an island we also have "the South Shore" and "the North Shore" and each has it's specific character. The North Shore is considered rural. The South Shore is considered suburban.
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