<p>absence makes the heart grow fonder. There's nothing like waking up to spring after a New England winter :)</p>
<p>More colleges equals more college students and that can lead to bigger and better things.</p>
<p>Maybe so, but kids from Duke and kids from MIT won't interact much anyways even though they're on the same coast;).</p>
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<p>What a load. If having a long-distance relationship has taught me anything, it's that all absence does is make you grow frustrated, impatient, and sad.</p>
<p>But if you're in Boston, it's a melting pot of different colleges.</p>
<p>How is this not the same in Southern California?</p>
<p>Yeah, Boston (and NY to an extent) are exceptions. But what if you're up at Dartmouth?</p>
<p>Well yea I was thinking about Boston and NYC really. Still it helps to know that if you want to go to another city on the east coast you're likely to run into many different colleges from inside and outside the city. I think at least, and this logic may be flawed, that if you have more colleges in a location you'll have more college students that you may interact with. And I don't know the numbers but I would think that the east coast would have more colleges simply because this is the starting ground of the country (13 colonies and all) so alot of educational institutes may have been started way before any out west. Ahh my logic stinks. :P</p>
<p>Reply to WEST COAST PEOPLE
for people who said that when it is around 65 degrees in west coast, the only people with shorts are tourist.....well this is for people in the west coast....out here in the east the temperature is around to 25-40 fahrenheit degrees here.....and when we have 55 degrees now, we are in shorts and t-shirt...and when we have 65 or above we are at the beach...so in the weather where west coast people wear sweaters and jackets, east coast people go to the beach and were shorts and t-shirts...SO ABSOLUTELY NOTHING GREAT ABOUT EAST COAST</p>
<p>Well I don't know about up north, but that's because here in the South, it's humid enough at 65 degrees for shorts and a tee!</p>
<p>Bestmiler, windchill in san francisco has a BIG effect. You feel like lighting a fire under yourself to keep warm if you're stuck in SF around sunset without a jacket on many days.</p>
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<p>dude...im home dying from a throat infection because of a recent snow storm.............i think stand the windchills......i mean i live in ny...... not to offend you but i think east coaster can take the cold better than west coasters and south coasters can take the heat better than east or west coasters....people adapt to their environment....this is the homeostatis of life</p>
<p>Snow kicks butt...through a window. (Unless you are driving) Snow is great and I don't really want to go to a school without it. Spring feels more magical when you live through 3 months of ice. I like snow. Besides, ski'n and board'n are fun! So is Ice Skating. Woot go Wisconsin! lol</p>
<p>I'm from Chicago and am not even considering a school that is in warm weather. I can't stand Chicago summers, I want to be in the winter year round. Maybe I should move to Alaska, to bad their summers get so hot too.</p>
<p>Advantages: Connections, Better cities to work in (New York, D.C., Atlanta, Boston, Pittsburgh). Great college towns: Boston, Pittsburgh.</p>
<p>Summer + snow.</p>
<p>Ehh I don't much like mid-atlantic summers. Way too humid. And plus, the Potomac reeks during July/August.</p>
<p>anyone here who went to an east coast college from the west, i want to know how much high the cost of living is on the east.</p>
<p>^^Wow that REALLY depends on where you are!! Haha...although California has a notoriously high cost of living.</p>
<p>It really does. DC/MoCo/Arlington/Fairfax are expensive, NYC is super expensive...probably averages around CA prices.</p>
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<p>Generally, the further south you go on the east coast, the cheaper it gets. ;) (Well, it probably dips back up in Florida.)</p>
<p>Gas here- $2.10</p>