CDL.TO
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I think what people would consider downtown, midtown, and uptown also changes as a city grows and gets older. They must change... especially when the boundaries have changed as well. It might have made sense to call Yonge-Eglinton "Uptown" back when it was actually in the north part of Toronto, but now that it is in the central part of Toronto, still calling it "Uptown" is just living in the past, and nostalgia is just sad.
I wouldn't write it off as nostalgia. Just a belief that changing political boundaries do not change the essence of neighbourhoods, including their names. I laugh at someone who claims that "Cooksville doesn't exist any more. It's Mississauga now." - and I have heard people make that sort of claim. Cooksville didn't disappear, it's still there and I can still point at a location on a map and say "that's Cooksville". It's just the people who collect the garbage and clear the streets who changed.
People who don't believe in shifting definitions are thinking that the Uptown neighbourhood is still the Uptown neighbourhood. And merging Mississauga with Toronto wouldn't turn Clarkson into Long Branch.