<p>Another slant is the comparison of the university town versus the surrounding area. </p>
<p>S2 just graduated from a large (28,000 students) directional state u. with D1 sports and partying reputation located in a city of 70,000.
A large percentage of the students are from within a one to two hour radius of the univ. It is not a suitcase school.</p>
<p>That two hour radius covers a LOT of rural area dotted with very small towns.<br>
These kids have no reason to go home and they don’t. They’ve waited all their lives to get out of Mayberry. </p>
<p>We have a second home not far from the sch. so visited S2 fairly regularly at the three blocks from campus hovel he shared w/ three friends. The entire neighborhood was occupied by students. They were out everywhere…walking the streets,hanging out in the yards,cooking burgers on grills,music blaring from open windows. It was never dead on the weekends.</p>