<p>Charlottesville + Ann Arbor.
Perfect mix of quiet & loud, college-y and not college-y.</p>
<p>what about Lame Deer, MT (home of chief dull knife college)</p>
<p>Chico California what what! At least, if you’re into never-ending blocks of frat parties.</p>
<p>Nashville is a really really great college town. Vanderbilt has a very self-contained feel (the “Vanderbubble”) but when people get bored, they can go downtown and do that sort of stuff. Kinda like UT-Austin, but with even more emphasis on the campus life because everyone’s required to live on campus all 4 years, minus a few exceptions.</p>
<p>Austin. 6th street. Enough said.</p>
<p>St Louis blows if anyone cared</p>
<p>Ann Arbor is a quintessential college town. East Lansing, MI is pretty sweet too (although not quite as exciting as Ann Arbor), and I’ve heard great things about Madison, Wisconsin.</p>
<p>Actually, Bloomington, IN is the quintessential college town, but Madison and Ann Arbor are also great college towns. Other great college towns are Lawrence, KS and Norman, OK.</p>
<p>Thirding Charlottesville :)</p>
<p>Madison is the best college town, hands down. You CANNOT beat it. It’s impossible. The town revolves around the school, the setting is amazing, State Street is amazing, game days are pretty much city holidays…there’s no way to beat it. Trust me. It’s the best place in the world! :D</p>
<p>Definatley disagree with LilyMoon. While New Paltz is seemingly a cool and fun college town, after going to school there i definatley disagree. It has a lot of sketchy people, and is quite run down. Not much to do aside from the bars.</p>
<p>Most awesome college town: UC Davis</p>
<p>Agree that Binghamton, NY is not a good college town. A lot of the (older, hick) residents HATE the college, even though the area is even more dead during the summer. </p>
<p>Ithaca, NY thrives on the colleges (Cornell + Ithaca + whateverIforgot). It’s like a “hip” young town in the middle of conservative upstate NY. Plenty of places to grab food off campus, both vegetarian and non. </p>
<p>Besides the fact that the rent is too damn high, NYC is a solid choice. Infinite stuff to do and has pretty much everything. Pick a suburb and your weekends are never boring.</p>
<p>Chapel Hill!</p>
<p>Gainesville</p>
<p>I think people have a really strange definition of “college town”. A college town is supposed to be a city that revolves almost exclusively around the school. In a true college town, most people work at or go to the college and the university has huge influence. New York, Atalanta, DC, etc. are not college towns. Just because there is a college in a town, doesn’t mean that it’s a college town.</p>
<p>Wow, no State College in here? No need to explain why it’s the best college town. I mean, it’s Happy Valley.</p>
<p>I second Gainesville, FL</p>
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<p>Haha!! You’ve got to be kidding. It absolutely sucks. You have to be 21 to do ** anything ** including going to see live music, the cops bust every fun thing that ever happens, and it’s just a hick suburb of Indy that happens to be an hour away. The downtown area is, well, bars, which you have to be 21 to get into at any time, and then there’re a bunch of indian antique shops and stuff that no one ever goes to. Further away from campus, there’s a Walmart and a bunch of strip malls. Awesome school, ****ty town.</p>
<p>Of the one’s I’ve been to, Madison is probably the best.</p>
<p>Another vote for Madison.</p>
<p>Austin is great too.</p>
<p>Most boring: Alpine, San Angelo, and Lubbock, TX</p>
<p>Most fun: Austin, San Marcos, and San Antonio, TX</p>