<p>South Bend, Indiana.</p>
<p>austin, tx and chapel hill, nc</p>
<p>Defffinitely Pittsburgh. My brother graduated from the University of Pittsburgh and found the city incredible-- lots of students, cheap housing, great nightlife, and plenty of restaurants.</p>
<p>Tempe, AZ
Princeton</p>
<p>Nashville was also cool but a bit overwhelming for me
and of course NYC is amazing if you're a city person</p>
<p>i live in princeton, but dont go to the university. its a very nice town though.</p>
<p>IMO, any town that is defined by its college football team: state college, college station...</p>
<p>Princeton? Are you kidding? I mean, it's pretty, but it's booooooring. At least it's relatively close to New York.</p>
<p>Cambridge gets my vote, along with NYC (of course!).</p>
<p>Tempe, AZ (GO ASU!!!! i want to go there next year)</p>
<p>Bloomington, IN (my sis went there and i visited many, many times. it was a total college town, it was awesome and i loved it)</p>
<p>Ann Arbor.</p>
<p>I really only looked at colleges in cities since I love them, so I'm a bit biased, but NYC cannot be beat in terms of providing a great college experience. Cambridge is good, but also certain parts are very industrial (near MIT), while the Harvard area of Cambridge is cool, but also a bit of a distance from the other Boston campuses (like BU, Northeastern, etc.). I would personally put NYC first, with NYU (smack dab in the middle of the Village, probably my personal favorite part of NYC) being in the best location, especially since the Columbia area has only recently developed into a safer neighborhood.</p>
<p>Just a note: I understand this is a subjective question and there is no "real" answer, but please please please, just pretend that what you say goes for two minutes. Geez.</p>
<p>This isn't a scientific study that's going to be published in a journal or something. It's just an opinion poll. Treat it as such.</p>
<p>Boulder, CO. Hands Down</p>
<p>austin texas</p>
<p>ann arbor!</p>
<p>"South Bend, Indiana"</p>
<p>I came away from the city of South Bend thinking I had finally found a place comparable to Detroit/Flint in being run down and depressed. I've heard the campus is nice, but everything I saw in the actual city was horrible.</p>
<p>Anybody have something to say about Ithaca? I've never been there, but I've heard good things from my friend who spent some time there growing up.</p>
<p>CLEMSON, SOUTH CAROLINA... hands down</p>
<p>distant second... blacksburg, va</p>
<p>UT- Austin, Texas--------REALLY GOOD!!
Ole Miss- Oxford, Mississippi------ GOOD!!</p>
<p>NYU is in the center of one of the best cities in the world!</p>
<p>State college is way overrated....</p>
<p>...nothing but cows, supermarkets and bunch of college kids.</p>
<p>OVERRATED</p>
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<p>I visited Ithaca to see Cornell...it was definitely just a small little historical-type town. The downtown was pretty cute - big for its type (i.e. seemed more interesting - but also older, more rundown - than Charlottesville) but still small. Because there's two (three? Ithaca, Cornell...?) colleges that border the "valley" kind of where downtown Ithaca is, apparently students outnumber actual residents by a lot. Walking around during the fall pretty much every single person I ran into was a student. There are a lot of fun and cheap restaurants and neat shops. Way better than going to school in the middle of nowheresville, but I can see it getting old around junior year.</p>
<p>The surrounding suburbs were historical/cute. The roads were windy and hilly and REALLY heavily wooded, so it seemed really Blair-witch-esque, especially at night. Could see the whole town kind of creeping me out on a rainy/cold winter day, which I hear there are a LOT of. Then again I'm weird like that, so.</p>