<p>Hiya, well…</p>
<p>Speaking from experience, Houston is suffocatingly humid the majority of the year and gets a few severe hurricane threats, so if you’re not used to durastic weather patterns, best aviod Rice. I’d still recommend UF to you, even though it’s in the South. It has a great sports reputation that I’m sure everyone respects, West Coast included. Don’t shrug off UGA, by the way. Athens is a short ways from Atlanta, which is where the majority of it’s student population comes from, and Atlanta is extremely diverse–people move in and out all of the time. There aren’t many Southern accents or similiar stereotypes at UGA (at least when I visited.) They also expect underage drinking and drug use a lot of the time. My friend says it’s kind of a right of passage to get detained for underage possession of alcohol. He’s in a frat though, so I guess that makes him “preppy” and therefore, less credible…??</p>
<p>Seriously, stop stereotyping regions. People in Boston are very friendly–maybe not as courteous as in the South where I live, but still friendly. When you look at colleges, don’t judge them by the town, judge them by the campus environment. Boston University much more relaxed than Boston College, Harvard, MIT, Tufts, etc. I think you would fit in at BU, judging by your posts. It’s about two blocks from Fenway Park, and they have a lazy river (you know that intertube river at water parks?) on campus. How awesome is that? The river front is also called the BU Beach, since people always sun themselves there and have grills going. You should check it out…</p>