<p>I've been hearing rumors (hopefully they are rumors) about how Ithaca is a very boring place to live in. is it true?</p>
<p>No, it's a nice place to live. It's not NYC, but there is a lot to do. Great theatre, music, arts, restaurants, and wonderful outdoor activities. With a major university and college in the city, how can it be dull?</p>
<p>There are 30,000 students between the ages of 18 and 25 in Ithaca. Unless you absolutely need to go out to posh night clubs every weekend, you will not be at lack for things to keep you occupied.</p>
<p>ithaca is probably the nicest city in upstate NY. utica is broken down, Syracuse is broken up btwn. North and the actual city, Rochester has a nice uptown but downtown is just commercial, and buffalo gets snow roughly every hour (maybe a stretch :) Ithaca is small when college is not in session, but when it is, it is a great collegetown. All my friends at IC and CU say that the Ithacans love college kids. And there are a few nightclubs to my knowledge.</p>
<p>My first roomie was from San Diego...she hated Cornell at first but by the time she graduate she had fallen in love...and she seemed to be at my apartment every other weekend during me senior year :-)</p>
<p>but it still has cows :p</p>
<p>Hey guys and gals</p>
<p>Allow me to chip in.</p>
<p>i dont think any of you will be able to change obesechicken''s mind on the matter. Funny your discussion so far.</p>
<p>I am doing a paper on "mid western university" what are your stats on the life there for both paying and foreign aid students?</p>
<p>Ithaca is boring. My God, it's boring! But that's good from my perspective as a parent. I wouldn't want too many distractions for my D.</p>
<p>Another parent chiming in. Ithaca is fun for students - too much fun from a parent's perspective!! Seriously, it's a great college town!</p>
<p>I detect sarcasm. My guidance counselor says that to get us to tour, to always ask this question: Does it have cows?</p>
<p>it's a joke, I'm ED ing at Cornell. Notice the tongue out smiley.</p>
<p>I dunno, I have found lots of interesting things that I like in Ithaca, like when they're selling stuff...or having shows I want to see...or restaurants I want to eat at. I'm not streetwise, although I'm not reckless either.
It all depends on whether you're traveling east or west from campus...I like how with hardly any effort I can get a busy feel (Ithaca, especially when there's traffic) or a country feel (walking out beyond the vet school).</p>
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<p>Trust me. There are many.</p>
<p>like booze, lots and lots of booze; and sex, lots and lots of unprotected sex.</p>
<p>(sarcasm)</p>
<p>Ithaca gets a bad rap, but it's a pretty decent town.</p>
<p>College is college, no matter where you go. Those who want to party will find the means to do so. And those who do not, will find ways to avoid it. Not really complicated...</p>
<p>It all depends on where you came from. If you are from a big city or its immediate suburbs, Itacha cannot offer the same level of restaurants and entertainment venues. But it is just as good or better than most of the towns and suburbs in the country.
On the flip side, I think it's actually a plus to be less distracting, it encourages one to be more involved in the campus life. Let's face it, you only go through the college years once. Might as well dive in.</p>
<p>Coming from someone who transferred from a school in New York City (NYU), living and studying in Ithaca has been a pretty good experience so far. I think it's a great place to go to college - I found the city way too distracting, and you need a lot of money to really do anything there anyway. It's a better place to live once you have a job.</p>
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<p>That said, I wouldn't say students at a lot of similar city schools aren't less involved in campus life -- say Chicago or Northwestern. But there is a big fall-off among the NYUs and BUs and UCLAs of the world.</p>
<p>But for any family where money is a concern, there will be a lot less pressure to go out and spend money week-in and week-out -- I know friends at Penn and Columbia who felt more pressure to go out into the city from their peers. A big night on the town for the average Cornell student is $5 group therapy at Dunbar's.</p>
<p>Now, if you really want corn fields, I will suggest Cornell College in Iowa.</p>
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<p>For anybody considering Cornell, you should know that this above comment comes from someone who was in Ithaca once and emerged with an incredibly inaccurate impression of the city. </p>
<p>It's far from boring if you don't want it to be.</p>
<p>It's not boring at all!! I live in Manhattan now and think ithaca is much more fun for a college student (and A LOT cheaper). Even without homework and class, I couldn't find enough time to fit in all the things I wanted to do during senior week. Cornell is a great place to go to college... I wouldn't trade that experience for anything</p>