what does downtown mean to you?

[Slew Foot]

Originally posted by: ironwing
Bums, tattoo parlors, bums, meth heads, expensive, underused civic blunders, bums, artsy-fartsy-MFAs opening galleries on six month leases cycling through, bums, court employees, lawyers, and their scum clients, parking meters, bums, really, really, really, really bad smelling people.

That's about right.

 

[zanejohnson]

Originally posted by: Rufus12

Originally posted by: zanejohnson
the business district....every town/city has one.

usually it surrounds the courthouse if there is one...

in our little city of around ~30,000 has about 3 main streets, lined with historic 2 or 3 story buildings.... there's a few newer 5-6 story buildings in the area, but that's about it... up on the freeway there's some semi-high rise hotels, but there in a completely different part of the city.... i guess that would be "uptown."

That's not little.

it's pretty little... you can drive from one end of town to the other in ~15 mins, when i think of big city, i think of at least 300,000 population... i guess i just consider it small because 30 mins east there's a city of ~65-70k people, and about 30 mins south is Denton, Texas, which is alot bigger, i dont know what the pop. is but i would imagine at least 100,000..and then from Denton it's all city all the way through the metroplex (dallas/ft worth area) here it just doesn't have the "big city feel" like it does the closer you get to DFW..

 

[Anubis]

Originally posted by: Rufus12

Originally posted by: zanejohnson
the business district....every town/city has one.

usually it surrounds the courthouse if there is one...

in our little city of around ~30,000 has about 3 main streets, lined with historic 2 or 3 story buildings.... there's a few newer 5-6 story buildings in the area, but that's about it... up on the freeway there's some semi-high rise hotels, but there in a completely different part of the city.... i guess that would be "uptown."

That's not little.

Correct I live in a town of 6000 and it has a "downtown"

 

[CorCentral]

Originally posted by: Raduque
Downtown? The courthouse, police station, 30-story banks, one-way streets, the Omni hotel, the jettys/t-heads and hookers.

You forgot Pawn Shops and Title Loan shops :laugh:

 

[IronWing]

Forgot to mention mentally ill people everywhere.

 

[MovingTarget]

lack of grenery, tall buildings, one way streets, exorbitant parking, tattoo parlors, shuttered storefronts, empty busses, clubs and associated drunks, lawyers, etc...

 

[compuwiz1]

:music:Going downtown.....gonna see my gal.....gonna sing her a song.....gonna show her my ding-dong. :laugh:

Originally posted by: oldsmoboat
:music:Downtown:music:

You're old....really, really, old. 😛

 

[Tiamat]

downtown, I usually consider the financial business district, government center, etc.

 

[TridenT]

Originally posted by: Anubis

Originally posted by: Rufus12

Originally posted by: zanejohnson
the business district....every town/city has one.

usually it surrounds the courthouse if there is one...

in our little city of around ~30,000 has about 3 main streets, lined with historic 2 or 3 story buildings.... there's a few newer 5-6 story buildings in the area, but that's about it... up on the freeway there's some semi-high rise hotels, but there in a completely different part of the city.... i guess that would be "uptown."

That's not little.

Correct I live in a town of 6000 and it has a "downtown"

Yeah.. I lived in a city of 20,000 and it was quite large... It had a downtown. 😛 (Roseburg, OR)

Anyway, I usually consider downtown the southern part of the city. I consider uptown to be the northern. Although uptown can also mean financially up, and downtown could mean financially down. Depends on how you want to do it.

 

[Capt Caveman]

Originally posted by: zanejohnson
the business district....every town/city has one.

usually it surrounds the courthouse if there is one...

in our little city of around ~30,000 has about 3 main streets, lined with historic 2 or 3 story buildings.... there's a few newer 5-6 story buildings in the area, but that's about it... up on the freeway there's some semi-high rise hotels, but there in a completely different part of the city.... i guess that would be "uptown."

Aren't you supposed to be in the army?

 

[txrandom]

Anywhere in Houston basically. We are going "downtown" to the Galleria.

 

[DVad3r]

Main part of the city. Downtown Toronto is the main part of the GTA. What I've noticed though in a lot of American cities like Milwaukee, is that downtown is a very business sector focused area, and it's pretty much empty after the working hours are finished or weekends. Or Buffalo too for that matter. Obviously there are cities like NYC that never sleep.

 

[moshquerade]

Originally posted by: AnonymouseUser
Cunning Linguists

this was my first thought too.

 

[JMapleton]

Originally posted by: idiotekniQues
it depends, being from the NY metro area, when i think downtown, i think bright lights, big city, imposing skyline, etc..

but having visited some other supposed cities, i think downtown to most people means some po' dunk collection of some generic shops and a couple quasi-skyscrapers.

When I think downtown NY I think garbage everywhere, rude people, filthy buildings, outdated architecture, and unreasonable cost of living.

CHICAGO ELITIST FOR LIFE!!!!! Edit: 😀

 

[EGGO]

SoHo, Greenwich Village, Chinatown, Tribeca, the sorts...

 

[LS21]

Originally posted by: ironwing
expensive, underused civic blunders, bums, artsy-fartsy-MFAs opening galleries on six month leases cycling through, court employees, lawyers, and their scum clients, parking meters, bums, young people in striped shirts and jeans

 

[clamum]

The oldest part of the city, sorta the center. For me: basically this area.

 

[RaistlinZ]

Originally posted by: thedarkwolf
Its where you need to go to finish the project.

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