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Even just from the song ‘Uptown Girl’ by Billy Joel, it’s clear there are distinctions between uptown and downtown. Even  though the terms often have different meanings today, ‘uptown’ used to signify a middle to wealthy class neighborhood while ‘downtown’ was deemed a poorer side of town when compared to its uptown counterpart. If this is still difficult to put into perspective, think of the Great Gatsby where East Egg represented where the wealthier elite resided while West …