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I don't know, but last time I looked Columbia and NYU are in the same city. Well Greenwich Village is a much hipper, safer area anyway.
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<p>Morningside Heights is not by any measure unsafe (it's patrolled by three separate police forces!), and it's by far the more "college town-like" of those two parts of the city, although the Village is undoubtedly more fun.</p>
<p>I'm gonna say Montreal.</p>
<p>Reasons:</p>
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<li>I go to McGill.</li>
<li>Very multicultural city.</li>
<li>Very cultured city. </li>
<li>The one metropolis in North America that doesn't have out of control rents. It's nice to be able to go to school and not pay out of my ass to get an apartment that isn't full of bugs, with no access to bus or subway station.</li>
<li>Legal age is 18.</li>
<li>Number of schools: McGill, Universite de Montreal, Universite du Quebec a Montreal, Concordia and Sherbrooke.</li>
<li>Chance to learn a new language in a city that actually speaks it.</li>
<li>This is more of a personal thing for me, but it's nice to have the ability to pay for school myself and come out relatively unscathed in terms of debt. Obviously this won't matter to people who have rich parents but it does to me since I pay for my own crap. Thanks Montreal! </li>
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<p>The downsides: Bars are pricey.</p>
<p>Cornell's location... Ithaca, New York is great. It has the highest number of restaurants per-capita anywhere in the United States.</p>
<p>Middletown, CT.....where Wesleyan is....it's 20 minutes from both Hartford AND New Haven....and 2 hours from New York City.</p>
<p>I agree with the Montreal....you forgot Dawson College.</p>
<p>Neither Hartford nor New Haven are really exciting places to be in, let alone aspire to. But the restaurants in Middletown are at least as good as most in New Haven anyway.</p>
<p>A couple of things about universities and Montreal:
-Dawson is a cégep, not a university, if you include it in the list of "colleges" you'll have to include all the other cégeps;
-Université de Sherbrooke has a building in Longueuil (on the south shore), so saying it's in Montreal, even in part, is a stretch...</p>
<p>I love how someone says they don't like a campus and a couple posts later they are called stupid, dumb, crazy, etc. by students who go there/are going there and have likely only seen 1/500th of all the college towns in the nation. This is great, but some of you have issues you need to work out just because someone has different tastes than you.</p>
<p>Although i love Cornell's campus.. i wouldn't recommend living there. Lovely for sight seeing but then winter comes around and attacks you with however feets of snow...</p>
<p>Also if you are a city person, then you'll have to drive an hour to get to syracuse... and nobody really has cars there. you have buses but... it's not so pleasant, i don't think. In ithaca, there's a little dinky mall that even has a bestbuy and borders because nothing else's there... NOTHING's AROUND FOR MILES... Just mountains and mountains...</p>
<p>My bro who lives there says he's sick of the cold and the mountain.. he thought he felt like he was training there or something like that (like in those old martial art movies lol)</p>
<p>I'm not a city person. I like medium sized towns. This town is TINY. Cornell is Ithaca basically(although there's another college there, i haven't seen it) I lived there for just a little bit and it just wasn't my thing.</p>
<p>VERY lovely town with cute stores though, but I personally didn't like it. AT ALL. I did like the campus but Ithaca to live in... eh.</p>
<p>Hmm.. The campus i liked was Norman, OK as well. University of Oklahoma campus is HUGE! Has all the stores you need and the city is an hour away or something but traffic doesn't suck (Also EVERYBODY pretty much has cars... ) XP Very nice looking buildings as well.</p>
<p>I am SHOCKED that ANN ARBOR has only been mentioned like twice. It's the classic college town!! How could we forget about Michigan??</p>
<p>As much as Williamsburg is NOT a college town, I love it anyway. It's weird to see costumed people crossing the area just outside of W&M. And it always smells like gingerbread. :)</p>
<p>so,</p>
<ul>
<li>Ann Arbor</li>
<li>Ithaca</li>
<li>Iowa City</li>
<li>Madison</li>
<li>Charlottesville</li>
<li>Poughkeepsie</li>
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<p>(just kidding about that last one)</p>
<p>Ann Arbor isn't really that great</p>