<p>i heard it was pretty pimpin, but i don't want to live in such a place. Did I hear correctly?</p>
<p>yeah it is...</p>
<p>you have hippies on one hand and ghetto fabulous wannabes on the other...</p>
<p>Collegetown certainly is, what with all the trash and dried urine everywhere.</p>
<p>Collegetown sort of is. Idiot Cornell students make it that way. </p>
<p>For the rest of Ithaca, most of the town revolves around the 2 colleges in the area so there's a very large % of PhD's in town. Overall, the town is incredibly intellectual.</p>
<p>Collegetown has a ghetto feel to it...but for those students who are willing to pay, there are the overpriced (but very nice) apartment complexes.</p>
<p>Have any of you actually been to a ghetto? </p>
<p>There's no barbed wire, no bullet holes riddling buildings, no drug dealers on street corners, no gunfights, no crushing poverty, and children are not scared to leave their homes (which have heavy metal bars on every window and door in ghettos). </p>
<p>Seriously. Some of you need to spend some time in the Peace Corps or AmeriCorps if a bunch of rich college kids constitutes your idea of ghetto. </p>
<p>Ithaca is like a blissful nirvana full of quirky, highly educated people. It's a wonderful place to spend four years - beautiful nature, quirky downtown with a lot of interesting restaurants and cinemas... </p>
<p>What you heard was completely wrong.</p>
<p>not all of us living (or lived) in Collegetown are a bunch of "rich college kids"....but now that I'm out my rural new york shell and living in New Orleans...I must say that Collegetown is a nice place. </p>
<p>however...I do want to say that I never felt unsafe in Collegetown or on campus....except for the week in March where there were reports of multiple muggings.</p>
<p>Yes, I know. Relative to most of the world though, a majority of people who attend Cornell are middle class or higher. I was using "rich" euphemistically. Sorry.</p>
<p>the crimes committed on campus and ithaca are ghetto IMHO...</p>
<p>some dude touching a chick's leg...people robbing frat houses (and caught red handed!!!) </p>
<p>there are said to be gangs in the city of ithaca...but the idea of teens being in gangs in a city like ithaca is laughable...</p>
<p>CU police seems to have jacked up their beat so one shouldnt have a problem...collegetown is collegetown...but if you stay on campus you'll never see most of the true parts of ithaca...</p>
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Have any of you actually been to a ghetto? </p>
<p>There's no barbed wire, no bullet holes riddling buildings, no drug dealers on street corners, no gunfights, no crushing poverty, and children are not scared to leave their homes (which have heavy metal bars on every window and door in ghettos). </p>
<p>Seriously. Some of you need to spend some time in the Peace Corps or AmeriCorps if a bunch of rich college kids constitutes your idea of ghetto. </p>
<p>Ithaca is like a blissful nirvana full of quirky, highly educated people. It's a wonderful place to spend four years - beautiful nature, quirky downtown with a lot of interesting restaurants and cinemas... </p>
<p>What you heard was completely wrong.
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Calm down applejack. I'm well aware that it's not literally a ghetto; it is however, quite dirty. I was born and raised in Chicago, I know what bad neighborhoods are like.</p>
<p>Dude touching a chick's leg is ghetto? </p>
<p>Wow. The world is going to be an interesting place for you to discover.</p>
<p>I feel like I am in an alternate universe reading some of these remarks. Cornell has one of the prettiest campuses around. Nicer than let's say, Princeton, which is pretty nice. Maybe Ithaca isn't as upscale as the town of Princeton, but that is actually part of its charm. Now the weather....This is where I would have some concerns.</p>
<p>Am I living in the same Collegetown everyone's describing?!</p>
<p>Absolutely not a ghetto in any sense of the word.</p>
<p>When I visited Cornell, I felt it was the complete opposite of ghetto. Compared to Baltimore or Chicago, Ithaca is a safe haven.</p>
<p>I got no ghetto feel. not that I spend times in ghettos but it felt even nicer than the normal downtown atmosphere I'm used to. Ithaca seems like a very nice place.</p>
<p>"Dude touching a chick's leg is ghetto?</p>
<p>Wow. The world is going to be an interesting place for you to discover."</p>
<p>maybe not ghetto, but I have to say, I found that email kind of disturbing.</p>
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Dude touching a chick's leg is ghetto?</p>
<p>Wow. The world is going to be an interesting place for you to discover.
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<p>I guess I can be really ghetto at times.</p>
<p>^^
Haha </p>
<p>Thank you everybody else!</p>
<p>When a prospective student has a legitimate question about a place he has never been and a major decision about his entire future, I don't think it's fair to call a place where well educated college students urinate on the sidewalk a ghetto and potentially scare him away for nothing. U Penn has legitimate concerns about safety. Cornell does not. </p>
<p>While certainly not an upscale city, Ithaca is a solidly middle class city.</p>