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But rage spikes in quieter places too, like the Oregon burg where “St. Denis Medical” is set.

From Salon • Feb. 26, 2026

The town is Maplewood, a quaint commuter burg which is home to a number of New York Times employees and, probably not coincidentally, is the subject of frequent coverage in the New York Times.

From Slate • Oct. 27, 2023

From the pilot episode, when audiences first met these self-destructive high-schoolers in the fictional California burg of East Highland, Fezco felt distinctive, not just to “Euphoria” but to series TV.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 1, 2023

The former timber and mining burg of Index, roughly 60 miles northeast of Seattle, once welcomed such pass-through traffic along its few unpretentious blocks via a 10-mile winding road from Gold Bar.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 2, 2022

Most of the athletes boarded buses heading west to the new Olympic village in Charlotten- burg, but the American oarsmen climbed onto two buses bound for the little village of Kopenick southeast of Berlin.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown