The sumptuous Thai food, the luxury hotels, the stunning temples, and not too far from the city, there is access to gorgeous white sand beaches.
Some services are not stopping at Wolverhampton's bus station because passengers say it is too far from the city centre, operators have said.
Qiaotou, for instance, which sits on a toxin-ridden river not far from the city, makes 70% of all the buttons used in China.
Savannah's port is almost 20 miles (32km) inland on the Savannah River, far from the city's charming Victorian centre, in the distinctly unlovely suburb of Garden City.
They noted how other capitals such as Seoul, with its long history of violent student protests located their new universities far from the city center.
Following its boom days, Santa Teresa fell into neglect, when Rio's favelas (slums) spread onto the nearby hillsides and crime drove the wealthy to southern neighbourhoods far from the city centre.
Residents slept outside in cars or fled to the suburbs far from the city's high rises as more than 300 aftershocks rattled the area throughout the day, according to state-run media.
Critics argue that The Palace of Auburn Hills is too far away from the City of Detroit, as a result, disconnecting the team from its core fans and driving out resources.
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If it is too far away from the city centre, travellers will incur extra transport costs when getting to meetings.
Winding through these oases are little lanes that you can explore, taking you far from the big city bustle of Abu Dhabi and Dubai.
Down a narrow alley not far from the sparkling city centrepiece of Federation Square is dark, pokey Rutledge Lane, where a wild riot of colour spills over every surface and stretches storeys high.
If you need to escape the city, you have easy access to the historic Golden Ring towns of Sergiev Posad, Suzdal and Vladimir, where you will be rewarded with a slice of rural Russian life far from the frenetic city pace.
One senior NATO military official told CNN there have definitely been movements of heavy weapons around Sarajevo, but that its difficult to be sure that the weapons are far enough away from the city to no longer be a threat.
The small temple, which was a Christian Science reading room until the congregation bought it in the spring of 1992, is tucked back on a winding residential street in the northern part of the city, not far from the university that shares its name with the town.
By dint of its extreme location on the southern tip of Roosevelt Island, a site barely accessible even to the island's 14, 000 inhabitants, the four-acre park is already far removed from the rest of the city.
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As far as we were from the city's outskirts, which bore the brunt of the unrest, menace still hung as heavy as the humidity.
Hintze's career started far from Wall Street or the City, but instead in the Australian Army, where he quickly climbed the ranks to become a captain.
The label Christopher Kane is really a double act of Christopher, the youngest of five children born near Motherwell, a Scottish city very far from the heathery image of the Highlands, and his sister Tammy Kane.
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He was never a creature of the capital city's social scene, living in a spartan apartment in the city not far from the Supreme Court offices on Capitol Hill.
All of them are not far from the capital of Tatarstan Republic - city Kazan (see map).
Thousands of families raise chickens in the city of Dehui, where the plant is located, not far from the North Korean border, which pitches itself as a broiler city.
This was, with a further sad irony, the only period in which Daumier, having toiled all his life to make a meagre living and now almost blind, managed to fulfil the conventional role of the fine artist far removed from the moral hurly-burly and commercial exigencies of the city.
Far from fearing private-school competition, the city's public system has embraced it: it has already absorbed three private religious schools (two Christian, one Hebrew).
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Military tactics and clandestine hostage-rescue methods were far from the minds of regular folks in Midland City on Wednesday, Ethan's sixth birthday, as they tried desperately to return to normal life while giving thanks for the heart-wrenching event's joyous outcome.
Where Thai and Indonesian firms might have once considered listing in Hong Kong, they are now attracted by the growing base of fund managers in Singapore (drawn there by the easy living and efficiency of the city, a far cry from Hong Kong's pollution and crowding).
And while the system is far from perfect, the income is crucial to the newly formed government in rebuilding the city, whose basic infrastructure has been shattered by war.
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Fawcett's research has found that, far from leading the way, the UK's capital city lags behind much of the country when it comes to gender equality.
These premises, plus the hangarlike 11, 000-square-foot workspace Wilner maintains for his brigade of restorers in Long Island City, are a far cry from the walk-up apartment where he first lived and sold frames back in 1983.
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