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Many French "towns" are just neighborhoods of larger cities, all togheter form large urban blobs,, the problem is this >>212418568
Take Villeurbanne for example.
Technically a distinct "town" with it's own mayor. In practice it's part of Lyon.
It's where the student campuses are and all the research centers, where I lived for a while.
It's not even a suburb, it's a neighborhood and you walk into "Lyon" just by crossing the street, and there's no difference at all