"Én Budapesten lakom, de ő Veszprémben."
Translation:I live in Budapest, but she lives in Veszprém.
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Within Hungary, some place names take the -n ending and some take -ban/-ben. There's no really easy rule to remember which is which, and you should just memorize it for each city name.
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In order to express "she is in Veszprém", you would need the verb van in the second clause: Én Budapesten lakom, de ő Veszprémben van. (I would also then probably use pedig instead of de since there is not such a direct opposition between the two halves anymore.)
With the sentence as written, the only sensible interpretation of the second clause is that the verb is implicitly the same as in the first one.