I can't think of one area of London that would be properly described as
downtown, unless it's where the Houses of Parliament are
located...but then what about the West End? Knightsbridge? And then...
When I think of downtown, it's where we used to go to see a movie or go
shopping. When my
Sue wrote:
So if you were going up to London (which we did from Bromley, Kent) , you
would be going downtown!
That's one reason why I didn't know what it meant. Having lived east, west
and south of London I always went up to town when going into central
London.
Tamara wrote:
And yes, Jane,
In my upbringing, 'downtown' just meant the central
business area of the smallish town I lived in.
In the medium sized town I'm in now, the merchant
organization is the Downtown Association. It's the
core area of the town -- stores, restaurants, city
hall, police, fire, county courthouse,
Can someone in the US tell me what you mean by downtown?
That's easy downtown means the city centre ie where everything is..
So if you were going up to London (which we did from Bromley, Kent) , you
would be going downtown!
I too was surprised by the term, but have got used to it after 7
Here on the west coast of the US (in Washington State), the term 'downtown'
usually means 'in the heart of the city' or 'where the action/nightlife is' as
opposed to the outer areas and suburbs. Nothing negative about the term here.
Lorri
Can someone in the US tell me what you mean by
Hi All, Doesn't anyone remember Downtown by a record by Petula Clark in
the 1960s? Downtown has only positive connotations as far as I know. Here
in Brattleboro (where downtown is pretty small) people also say they are
going down street. It means pretty much the same thing and I don't know
Jean Nathan wrote:
Can someone in the US tell me what you mean by downtown?
I have been told that in New York City, uptown and
downtown are directions, akin to mauka and makai
(which I've almost certainly mis-spelled) in Honolulu --
but mauka and makai are radial co-ordinates and uptown
and
