Whats the best Starbucks coffee?

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<p>food can only get you so far....look at it this way.....Blacksburg is just like your hamlet...only it's easier to get FAT and die of high cholesterol :)....soooo....if you compare the ratio of restraunts that serve foodstuffs with high levels of cholesterol and fat...we'll make it 30:1...and the rate at which you and I consume food daily.....and say that eating out gives you twice as much intake of fat than eating at home......then i have 60 times the propensity of becoming morbidly obese.</p>

<p>Now we take the rate at which you and i take in caffeine....caffeine can cause kidney damage if taken in large amounts for long pds. of time....now....there's a starbux in blacksburg..with such an amenity...i probably drink about 3 times as much caffeine as you do regularly....so....i have 3 times the chance of getting kidney disease!</p>

<p>Be content with the fact that by living in your village, you preserve your health, while i stuff my face and get wired on mochas!</p>

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<p>LOL. </p>

<p>As a vegetarian tea-drinker who eschews fried foods, there isn't much chance of me getting too chubby or unhealthy. In fact, I lost about 5 pounds during finals because I can't eat out here. My blood pressure (well, before law school) is in the 90/60 to 90/50 range. Unfortunately, I LOVE to eat out, and there is one vegetarian restaurant here (yay!) and there are exactly five dishes that I can eat at the other good restaurants (boo). Yes, I've had them all. I just live on frozen organic vegan pizza (which Kroger stocks) when I don't want to cook for myself. ;) My car can do autopilot to the Indian places in Roanoke, the Chili's in C-ville, and any Starbucks within a 100 mile radius. You walk to restaurants - I pollute my way there. ;)</p>

<p>As for caffeine... as I said, law student. I'll kill my kidneys, get great grades, get a good job, and buy replacements on the black market. Just get me some caffeine! </p>

<p>I'll take Blacksburg. I'll take Roanoke. Anything besides the cows, the other law students, the cadets, the retirees, and the rednecks with their camo pickup trucks and gun racks in the back. Give me a bar that doesn't have a NASCAR mural in blacklight paint. Pleaaassee!</p>

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<p>WELL...I am hypothesizing that blacksburg has more cars...hence more pollution in the air...and since there are a few factories around, air pollution is destined to be worse than where you are!...sooo just by breathing...i slowly kill my aveoli and risk lung cancer to a higher degree than you do :D</p>

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<p>That's true.</p>

<p>But cities are usually more energy-efficient than towns or rural areas. People in NYC use less energy per capita than anywhere else in the US - they walk or use public transportation, live in reasonable-sized apartments which don't lose much heat... and, well, they don't have to pollute the atmosphere with seven gallons of gas just to go to Staples. </p>

<p>I think that the pollution difference between Blacksburg and here is really negligible - neither place is LA. But, on the whole, I create more smog by living here.</p>

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<p>Okay guys I haven't read any of the posts or anything, I just had to say really quick that I know who you are nahrafsfa, cuz I'm Sarah, that tan Arab of our lil Muslim community ;)
And baggins is zoya.
Alright then, good day to you all.</p>

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<p>WELL....you have to take Blacksburg traffic in to account :D (btw i'm lovin this lol).....now....around 12 and 5 o clock....traffic is horrible...me being a typical undergrad....walk constantly (where first of all i inhale the carbon monoxide coming from the approximately 18-22,000 vehicles on the road at those specific times)....now....from my impression of your town....during rush hour...there're probably about 1-2,000 cars on the road while you're walking to class.......now.....campus is one of the most congested places in blacksburg.....now we'll assume there're 20,000 cars on the road during rush hour in blacksburg....and 1500 in...i'll call it hamlet......soooo i inhale 13 and 1/3 times more harmful fumes than you at around 12 and 5......also!....there is a 13.33333333 higher probability of me getting run over while walking across the street.....now....we must also take in the amount of alcohol consumption at Va. Tech....i'd say atleast 3,000/22,000 students drink during mid day (13,000/22,000 on weekend nights...i'd say atleast 7,000/22,000 on weeknights).....so.....say 1,500 of those 3,000 ppl have cars and 800 decide to drive.....and say there're only 80 drunks on the road in hamlet.....soooo......i'm 10 times more likely to get hit by a drunk driver!</p>

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<p>LMAO! A thousand cars on the road during rush hour!?!?! You should see the traffic jams. There are sometimes even three cars waiting at a red light! Honestly, I don't think there are even 2,000 cars on the road at once - I mean, the town would implode. That's literally (counting students & profs in as citizens) 1/3 of the people who live here, driving... no way. </p>

<p>I've been hit by cars - twice. Which means that you have to get hit three times before you can start complaining.*</p>

<p>There's more alcohol consumption here - not just per capita. ;) School sponsored kegs (and wine and sangria) are a great thing (although my liver would now like to protest and claim that it was much happier prior to this adventure we shall call education, thank you very much). The cops are also big about giving out drunk in public citations, which encourages people to drive instead of walk - sadly, you have a smaller chance of being caught when driving as opposed to walking. Sometimes, instead of issuing a citation (kind of like a parking ticket), they will just throw you in jail. Hence the prevalence of drunk driving here.</p>

<p>Other hazards: I went running (what could be healthier than running in fresh mountain air?) and sprained my ankle when I tripped on a crack in the pavement. Sprained it badly.** That was several months ago, and it hasn't fully healed - in part because the crutches were killing me. Ever tried carrying a laptop, bookbag full of thousand-page books, and hobbling up stairs on crutches? </p>

<p>Blacksburg probably has taxis for drunk people. It probably has bars for drunk people to go to. It might even have taxis for injured students who shouldn't be driving on a bum ankle. We don't. We have phenomenal scenery though. </p>

<p>Even if you do get hit by a drunk driver, you're more likely to recover. Blacksburg's hospitals have probably progressed into the twentieth century (maybe even the 21st)- regular use of anaesthetics and maybe even a trauma center, while good ol' SJH still uses the "chomp down on this piece of leather while we just cut off this leg before it develops gangrene, sonny" method of medical treatment. </p>

<p>*Sure, I have experience under my belt, which could reduce injuries, but that effect will be discounted here as being too negligible to measure.</p>

<p>**Although one advantage of rural living is that three police cars and a medic from the other school in town were immediately on hand to help me out. I'm sure your town has actual crime, not just drunk college kids and the occaisonal fight over a cow.</p>

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<p>Forgot to mention - your city is bigger than Hamlet. While there may be more drunk drivers on the road, they are spread out over a larger area, so your chances of being hit by one are the same as mine (or lower, because we drink more).</p>

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<p>Crime = more chances to get shot, mugged, assaulted on a regular basis :p....C-ville isn't too bad cuz it's not too far away from Richmond, Va. Beach, D.C....Blacksburg...ummmm....we have Roanoke 30 minutes away :p..</p>

<p>I would argue that drug use in Bburg's higher than hamlet's...but...coming from a rural area where everyones obsessed with pot, coc, crystal meth, loratabs,xanaxes/valiums, and oxycontins...i can't argue that rural areas have lower amounts of drug consumption</p>

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<p>caramel macchiato!!!!!!!!!</p>

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<p>I think that the rich kids here tend to have a big coke habit.</p>

<p>You haven't been shot, mugged, or assaulted yet - so no complaints from you! The cops here just give out traffic tickets like beads at Mardi Gras. I once had a lovely, perfect driving record - almost seven years of perfection, but then I moved down here. So my insurance will probably go through the roof. Grrr!</p>

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<p>Aries.... how do you get to the regular starbucks in Lynchburg... I can't find it!!</p>

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<p>Starbacks = corporate whoreism</p>

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<p>Soounfyooz:</p>

<p>Not sure where you go to school, but I'll try to give directions:</p>

<p>It's on 501/Boonsboro Road/Lynchburg Expressway. When you take 501S, you take a left onto the Expressway, and the Starbucks is about a mile down. It's in a strip mall with Talbots and a few others - although the actual store is set off by itself. </p>

<p>Rt 29 (if you are coming from the Chatham area) meets up with 501 on the other side - so you take 29N and go north on the Expressway.</p>

<p>Coming from C-ville, take 29S, and then take 29 Business, then take a right onto Rivermont Ave, which turns into Boonsboro Road.</p>

<p>If you know where the Kroger (as part of a strip mall, which is distinctive because it's all brick) is, it's near there - just north on the Expressway, on the same side of the street (left as you head north, right as you head south).</p>

<p>I must confess, I can always find that Starbucks, even when I'm lost - but cannot, for the life of me, find the Barnes & Noble there.</p>

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<p>mocha latte</p>