Best College Town?

Pre-College Issues High School Life
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<p>What do you think is the best college town in the country?</p>

<p>My vote goes to Austin. It's an ecclectic mix of all different kinds of people, and with UT having an undergrad population of around 60,000 it's impossible not to find someone interesting to hang out with. Also, it's the live music capital of the world, beautiful, and has tons of outdoorsy stuff to do.</p>

<p>I don't want to hear anything about Boston or NYC. Boston is just a maze with a college on every street corner, and NYC is... well... it's NYC.</p>

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<p>Cornell University (Ithaca).</p>

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<p>Austin is nice. Only place in Texas I can stand.</p>

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<p>^^I loved the Cornell campus and area around Ithaca. Ithaca itself was nothing special.</p>

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<ol>
<li><p>Boston & surrounding cities - there’s 60 colleges (including Harvard, MIT, BU, BC, Tufts) within a 10 mile radius of Boston. The atmosphere is really learning-friendly.</p></li>
<li><p>Have to agree with puggly. Ithaca is a nice little college town with beautiful setting and is not too far away from major cities such as NYC and Philly.</p></li>
<li><p>Pittsburgh.</p></li>
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<p>I heard Philadelphia is a good college city but I’ve never been there so I can’t judge.</p>

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<p>I’ll go with Boston (despite your preferences).</p>

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<p>If anyone says Chapel Hill, I will castrate you.</p>

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<p>Since no actual towns have been suggested, I’ll give my $.02 based off of colleges that I’ve visited:</p>

<p>Eugene, Oregon- Home of the University of Oregon <- Under rated because UO isn’t a USNWR top 20 school
Chapel Hill, North Carolina- Home of the University of North Carolina
Athens, Georgia- Home of the University of Georgia
Charolttesville, Virginia- Home of the University of Virginia</p>

<p>I know it’s not a town, but Austin, Texas has a real college town feel to it (especially 6th street and the Drag)
^ Those are my favorites and I also like Blacksburg, Virginia- Home of Virginia Tech (but it’s a little too remote for me)</p>

<p>Cackalacky- You must be a DOOK fan or something.</p>

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<p>^No, I live in Chapel Hill, I just don’t find it entertaining at all. I’m a UNC sports fan in every way shape and form. Durham sucks even more, it’s like Duke and the Ghetto…</p>

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<p>Oh ok. I can see getting bored in Chapel Hill if you’re not a student, but that’s why they’re called college towns. Yea, Durham is pretty ghetto. It reminds me a lot of South Bend, Indiana. Jut like Durham, South Bend is home to a beautiful and prestigious private university (Notre Dame) with a top quality sports team, but the town is an absolute dump. I can’t imagine hanging out in downtown Durham. Duke probably requires students to live on campus for the 1st 3 years so they don’t have to be exposed to Durham.</p>

<p>P.S.
What do you think of the Lake Norman area outside of Charlotte? I thought that area would be a pretty nice to live in as long as you have a power boat and lived on the lake.</p>

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<p>Berkeley, Ann Arbor, Seattle, and Boston.</p>

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<p>^^I passed by one time, it seemed nice…don’t really know it well.</p>

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<p>Athens.</p>

<p>/thread</p>

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<p>Seattle and Ann Arbor</p>

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<p>I don’t think Seattle and Boston get to be called “college towns.” Those are big cities.</p>

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<p>I would probably have to say NYC, although I haven’t been anywhere else (I’ve only been to the tourist/museum areas of Boston, tourist/museum area of Philly, and to the country part of Pennsylvania).</p>

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<p>Ithaca is 5 hours from NYC. 5. Freaking. Hours.</p>

<p>Seattle seems like a nice place. I’m not sure how I feel about NYC as a college campus. Princeton is a great campus as well. I believe it’s 1.5 hours from NYC and 2 from Philly. The problem with Princeton that it’s a bit of a boring town though. :/</p>

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<p>I’m pretty sure Ann Arbor won this award.</p>

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<p>I visited Ann Arbor. I didn’t think it was anything special.</p>

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<p>Philidelphia/Boston</p>