<p>I'm from Dallas (and love the city life) and from what I have gathered College Station is a rural kind of town, with not many things to do, or so I've heard. Is this true and if so how did you adjust, if you came from a big city, to a small town such as College Station?</p>
<p>what do you do in Dallas that you are worried about missing in College Station?</p>
<p>I would also like to know the answer to this. 
Is there a lot to do other than the whole football/school spirit/“ra ra” scene and the usual college partying?</p>
<p>tell us what you like to do and we can tell you if you will find it. </p>
<p>College Station and Bryan together make up the Bryan-College Station metropolitan area, the sixteenth largest metropolitan area in Texas with 203,371 people. It isn’t that small.</p>
<p>college station has pretty much everything, just not on the same scale as the largest cities</p>
<p>i’m from houston so its a bit different, for example, there isn’t a mcdonalds every few intersections or a large amount of malls to choose from but it has all that you need, if not, houston is 1.5 hr drive away, and other towns aren’t too far. most businesses are centric to the university so its quite nice, and it gives it a college town feel without being in the middle of nowhere</p>
<p>I have fun here, but I don’t know if it fits your definition of fun. I can see how this could be something to be concerned about, but it is the quality of education that I thought was most important. College Station is different than what many people think. I wouldn’t exactly call it a small rural town.</p>
<p>Student life is not bad at all. I came from Austin, and I still find plenty of stuff to do here in College Station. $4 movie tickets ain’t bad either!! Also, once you’re in various organizations… There’s always plenty of stuff to do!</p>
<p>oh yes, and what gcole07 said is another point worth bringing up, alot of the businesses are centric around A&M and the college crowd, so its not as expensive here as it is in other cities (generally speaking)</p>