Hi everyone this is my first post so I'm sorry if I wrote the post incorrectly
but my question is this. How would I say near in this sentence: "Does anyone
live near (city name)?" Would it be 近く？
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How would I say 'near' as in, "Does anyone live near (city name)?"
You are close, but 近く usually means "in the near future". To say "nearby", you
can use (～の)近く **に**.

>   * 私は東京の近くに住んでいます。 I live near Tokyo.
>   * 誰かこの近くに住んでいますか？ Does anybody live nearby?
>   * (compare: 近く東京に行きます。 I will go to Tokyo soon / in the near future.)
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Here, 近く is a lexicalized **noun** meaning "nearby place". You can find the
list of similar nouns that look like the ku-form of i-adjectives in this
question: [Is anything implied, but not written, in this nominalization
"遠くを見つめる"?](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/q/27286/5010)

Alternatively, you can say 近いところに, although this is a bit wordy.
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