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We don't say downtown or uptown in the UK either.[/quote]

I think these words are used in the US only.

In the US, "downtown" = business center, and "uptown"= residential areas away from "downtown." Every city in America has "downtown" and "uptown."

...By the early 1830s, the term uptown was used...

How about this version?

Я работаю в центре (города), в университете.

So in my Russian class we were told to make up a dialog among two people at a park, who live in the same apartment building. My two characters in this dialog are Илья who thinks Сергей looks...