In French, the common translation for English *suburb* seems to be [*banlieue*](https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english-french/suburb). Unfortunately, however, this term has quite a lot of (negative) pragmatic baggage at least in France (cf. [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banlieue#mw-content-text))†; Is there no way of referring to a "suburb" in a truly neutral manner, without resorting to the use of qualifiers or euphemisms?

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†I'm not sure about the situation in e.g. Belgium or Switzerland, but I've heard that term is not "loaded" in this manner in Quebecois French.