<p>Another vote for Iowa City.</p>
<p>Probably only one chance to live in a great college town - as a student!</p>
<p>Chapel Hill</p>
<p>Definitely Evanston, home to Northwestern.</p>
<p>What about Eugene, Oregon- home of the University of Oregon? It doesn’t get a lot of publicity on this site because UO isn’t a top 20 school, but Eugene consistently ranks in the top 10 of best college towns and UO is a really nice school.</p>
<p>Other good college towns that I have visited:
Chapel Hill (UNC), Charlottesville (UVA), Athens (UGA), Blacksburg (Virginia Tech), Austin (Texas)
Good college towns that I have yet to visit:
Iowa City (Iowa), Madison (Wisconsin)</p>
<p>“Every college student needs to read this statement. If you come from a lower-to-middle-class background, then cost of living and budgeting are very important!!”</p>
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<p>When I went to visit Georgetown, I took a walk down M street and Wisconsin Ave. After noticing all the high end shops (True Religion, Lucky Brand Jeans, etc…) and high end restaurants, I thought to myself "It would suck to go to school here unless you were rich enough to afford to pay for Georgetown University and shop, eat, and in the Georgetown section of DC.”</p>
<p>Boulder, Berkeley, Boston.</p>
<p>Out of all of the places I’ve seen, probably the best college towns (in my opinion) were Chapel Hill, North Carolina (UNC); Amherst, Massachusetts (Amherst and UMass); Charlottesville, VA (UVa); Evanston, IL (Northwestern); Nashville, TN (Vanderbilt); and St. Paul, MN (Macalester).</p>
<p>Ithaca is gorges!</p>
<p>Burlington, Vermont. Beautiful, funky, filled with music and a great Uni. Wonderful state.</p>