<p>...according to the Daily Beast.</p>
<p>I love Ithaca. I’ll be there this weekend.</p>
<p>what’s #1?</p>
<p>Cambridge with Harvard and MIT. Cambridge doesn’t have rugged natural beauty, 3 state parks and a gorgeous lake nearby, reasonable prices with students comprising half of the population, and a totally relaxed vibe. Ithaca does.</p>
<p>Seems to be a big difference between the one slot above (Ann Arbor, Michigan) and the one slot below (East Lansing, Michigan). While Ann Arbor certainly deserves credit for all its various industries, I’m just not sure many people think of East Lansing as an intellectual mecca. </p>
<p>Then again, this ranking equates having degrees with being smart, which anyone who’s worked in the real world 10 minutes knows is not true. Also funny that they say Boston doesn’t qualify but Cambridge - which is a mere walk across a bridge from it - does.</p>