A Western Sydney Gang Got Hold of Military-Grade Rocket Launchers

Re:A Western Sydney Gang Got Hold of Military-Grade Rocket L... by NamTaf on Thursday October 31, 2019 @09:02AM (#21408229)

CBD is by no means Sydney-specific, just FYI, it’s a commonly used term in the English-speaking world. Due to the new-world situation of Australia’s cities, the CBD and downtown/city centre basically always overlap (I.e: there’s no ‘old town centre’ separate to the highrise district), so Aussies just refer to it all as ‘CBD’.

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Re:A Western Sydney Gang Got Hold of Military-Grade Rocket L... by loeg on Thursday October 31, 2019 @09:22AM (#21408395)

The term CBD isn’t used in the US, as far as I’ve ever heard. That’s probably why some commenters will be confused. I am only familiar with it because of a former coworker from Melbourne.

(Seattle is sort of similar in that there isn’t really an old town center, or rather it’s directly adjacent to the downtown highrises (Pioneer Square).)

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Re:A Western Sydney Gang Got Hold of Military-Grade Rocket L... by twic on Thursday October 31, 2019 @09:38AM (#21408556)

It's not used in the UK either. Or rather, it's a technical term in human geography, probably used by geographers all over the world, but it's only in Australia that it's used in everyday language:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_business_district

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Re:A Western Sydney Gang Got Hold of Military-Grade Rocket L... by kingofpandora on Thursday October 31, 2019 @10:40AM (#21409308)

I believe it's used in New Orleans. That's the only place I'd heard it before going to Australia.

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Re:A Western Sydney Gang Got Hold of Military-Grade Rocket L... by loeg on Thursday October 31, 2019 @11:30AM (#21409851)

Perhaps I should have said "widely used." :-) I have never been to Louisiana, but I've been to several states.

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Re:A Western Sydney Gang Got Hold of Military-Grade Rocket L... by nsxwolf on Thursday October 31, 2019 @09:23AM (#21408400)

I never heard CBD until the first time I went to Sydney, but I understand it's common. I think in the US we tend to name our CBDs instead, like Chicago has "The Loop" and most places just say "downtown".

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Re:A Western Sydney Gang Got Hold of Military-Grade Rocket L... by basch on Thursday October 31, 2019 @09:55AM (#21408763)

Isnt it used in Dallas sometimes? Dallas also has a separate Uptown from Downtown.

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