Money: Princeton a "Great American Town"

Colleges and Universities A-Z Princeton University
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<p>magazine ranks princeton #15 in its 2005 "best places to live" rankings.</p>

<p>the rankings:
<a href="http://money.cnn.com/best/bplive/top100_1.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://money.cnn.com/best/bplive/top100_1.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>princeton "snapshot": <a href="http://money.cnn.com/best/bplive/snapshots/40706.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://money.cnn.com/best/bplive/snapshots/40706.html&lt;/a> (note personal crime risk index = 6, where national average = 100)</p>

<p>princeton also places #10 on money's "most educated" list, out of 1,300 contender cities, with 41% of residents holding graduate degrees:
<a href="http://money.cnn.com/best/bplive/topten/educated.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://money.cnn.com/best/bplive/topten/educated.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>AP article:
<a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050711/ap_on_re_us/best_town%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050711/ap_on_re_us/best_town&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>w00t!! Go P-ton!</p>

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<p>SWEET! i live here!</p>

<p>oh wait, I guess that means I can't really work to upgrade...</p>

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<p>Yeah Princeton's pretty kickass all around :P My only complain would be the lack of things to do... I hear there's just a bunch of pharm. companies. Then again I am biased, coming from a suburban environment. I'm not very pro-suburbs at the moment >.<</p>

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<p>actually im from west windsor (borders Princeton), and I never realized, we need less that $4K more per household to break the top 10 for towns with highest average household income. (my family is def below that)</p>

<p>thanks for the link!</p>

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<p>Looking forward to going to bed knowing I'm super safe. :p
Then again, I've lived in new york for 10+ years and I've never had trouble sleeping...</p>

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<p>Considerably down the list from Moorestown, NJ, the town that gave us Blair Hornstine and her family.</p>

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<p>and noticeably absent from the list is cambridge, MA, the town that gave us the university that accepted and was set to enroll ms. hornstine before an avalanche of protestations by alumni, including one particular resident of hinghham, MA, also absent.</p>

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<p>I think P'ton wanted her too, even in the Hargadon era when the "Princeton type" was so sought after.</p>

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<p>what is the princeton type?</p>

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<p>Here is the leading ranking of "best college towns".</p>

<p>Harvard, as usual tops the list in all categories.</p>

<p>To be fair, Princeton ranks second to Dartmouth in the hick town category.</p>

<p><a href="http://www.epodunk.com/top10/colleges/index.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.epodunk.com/top10/colleges/index.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>ePodunk? What are they?</p>

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<p>let me guess, without looking at it: cambridge is #1? i really don't understand why you can't let any implied or express recognition of another university go without interjecting some statistic or citation to discredit it. i'll say this, now that i've looked at that ranking: i trust money magazine more than i do "e-podunk," whatever that is.</p>

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<p>You obviously haven't looked at the criteria in either case, and are totally ignorent of them - merely skipping to the bottom line to see if the result is pleasing to you. Indeed, you admit as much!</p>

<p>Look - I love the town where I live - lots of open space, on the ocean, historic and picturesque. Its even on the MoneyMag "contender" list (as is Cambridge). But I sure as hell wouldn't want to go to any college located here.</p>

<p>Princeton is in the same category. I lived there for two years. Nice suburban living ... but boring as hell as a college town.</p>

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<p>This is a pretty easy one. I have lived in Princeton, New York, London, and now the San Francisco Bay Peninsula. New York and London are cities. Princeton and my current address are not. If you want to go to college in a city, then don't go to Princeton or Stanford. But as college towns go, Princeton and Stanford aren't in the middle of nowhere. And the universities, understanding that they aren't in New York or London, do a pretty good job of setting up visiting performances etc., organizing trips to cities, and, in particular, fostering a festive social atmosphere on campus.</p>

<p>One person's boring is another person's serene.</p>

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<p>"Nice suburban living ... but boring as hell as a college town."</p>

<p>yet it ranks higher in your college town rankings than it does in money magazine's all-things-considered rankings.</p>

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<p>"Harvard, as usual tops the list in all categories."</p>

<p>not even in your own, preferred rankings. columbus, OH (big cities #4) boasts a lower unemployment rate and higher public library expenditures per capita than cambridge.</p>

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<p>Both Cambridge and Columbus, of course, outrank suburban Princeton as college towns. </p>

<p>I mean, lets face it: Princeton is just too boring, to limited and too expensive to be a good college town - which may be one of the reasons Princeton loses the great bulk of common admits to Harvard.</p>

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<p>of course? i don't see an overall list. congratulations, in any event, on dragging down the discourse on yet another thread. reminder: this was about princeton's placement in money magazine's best places to live 2005 rankings.</p>

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<p>yo, nycfan, define "the princeton type"</p>