What’s the difference between “uptown” and “downtown?”
“I’m going uptown to do some banking.”
“I’m going downtown to have a drink.”
I think that might be it there. The difference between formal and informal.
Or not.
September 9, 2005 by eric
What’s the difference between “uptown” and “downtown?”
“I’m going uptown to do some banking.”
“I’m going downtown to have a drink.”
I think that might be it there. The difference between formal and informal.
Or not.
i think you’ve nailed that one. damn fine observation.
Hear hear!
or is it here here?
Anyway, the correlation between up and down and where I’m actually going is nonexistent. I often tell people to come up, despite living on the bottom of a hill. I understand that this wasn’t the point of the post, but I found it relevant.
As for uptown and downtown, I rarely ever hear it referred to as uptown.
Wait…
Hear here?
go to a community where you feel like going to the city core is something grand and out of your league. it’s going uptown. only cool, sophisticated, confident people go downtown.
i thought about this as i walked out of work yesterday hoping not to have a parking ticket. they say i work downtown. does that mean nobody thinks it’s a big deal to be here?
you know, john, i think any combination of those hears/heres works.
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here hear, indeed. another fine thing the english language has to answer for.
there’s a name for that but i don’t remember it at this time. perhaps you can remind me.
billy joel did that song: uptown girl
you know, the dichotomy is getting bigger and there’s nothing we can do. some people think they’re closing the gap but all they’re doing is getting in it up to the hilt.
and that song was faeces…another word the americans spell differently.
Here in Kansas City we have the “Uptown Theater.” Now very old, has been restored with a fancy facade, etc. I’ve been told it was very posh.
mike, that’s interesting…how people describe things as posh etc.
was it not posh before it was restored?
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I must say that being from NYC, there really IS a difference between the location of uptown and downtown. Downtown refers to the “south” of the city center. Uptown clearly points you north. Techically, Harlem is located “uptown” though no one will ever refer to it in such a way. “Uptowners” would die before they refer to Harlem as “uptown.” Interestingly enough though, uptown in NYC IS where the rich boys and girls live and play. Downtown NYC is where the working slobs fight one another for a seat on the bus or subway at rush hour to go sell their stocks and commodities.
If I were going out on the town with friends (again, NYC) and they said “well we’ll head to a club uptown,” I’d know to dress up a bit more than if say, we were heading for the East village – which is quite downtown (way south of Central Park).
It is correctly put as: hear! hear!