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Re:Interactive map shows where native and new Berliners live by xxpor on Friday November 07, 2014 @11:09AM (#8573136)
>I haven't been to Berlin, so I don't know exactly how big it is, but one would not typically call "within 2km of city center" a suburb. One would typically call 2km from a city center, "the next neighborhood over in the city".

This is an American/Canadian vs Australian (and possibly European) thing.

From speaking to Australians, Downtown is the Central Business District, and everything else is a suburb.

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Re:Interactive map shows where native and new Berliners live by moron4hire on Friday November 07, 2014 @11:25AM (#8573246)
It seems weird to think of anything that is a part of the urban area be called sub-urban.
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Re:Interactive map shows where native and new Berliners live by PavlovsCat on Friday November 07, 2014 @11:47AM (#8573376)
I'm not sure where one would place the "center" of Berlin, but Berlin-Mitte (which you could translate as "Berlin Central") is really mostly banks and insurance companies, tourists and expensive hotels. It's not very urban, or alive. It's just... there.
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