<p>I've been living in a smaller-medium size city and I'm ready to move on to Chicago, New York, or Boston.</p>
<p>Is anyone else a "city" person and can't wait to escape to the concrete jungle?</p>
<p>Not me, I’ve been living in Boston for 17 years now and want to live in rural America for a change :)</p>
<p>Yes, but not necessarily one of the truly massive ones. I would like to be somewhere with good public transportation…</p>
<p>Yeah, I love big cities but I was in New York a few weeks ago and honestly it’s a little too big for me. I didn’t think I’d ever say that but it’s really crowded and just keeps going and going… A great town to visit, but I probably would not want to live there.</p>
<p>On that note, which cities/towns have good public transportation?</p>
<p>haha I do! lol</p>
<p>NYC=the heartbeat of the world :)</p>
<p>People who don’t live in a major city don’t realize that there is a grim underside.</p>
<p>Don’t get me wrong, I love Chicago. But the crime is getting out of hand, public transit is subpar, and the cost of living is very high. But the Chicago Bulls make everything alright :D</p>
<p>Live in a city with a population around 110,000, metro population is said to be hovering around 450,000. I thinkit really depends when you say college life in a big city, if this consist of a college town near the city such as UW-Seattle ( sorta have a college town). Though if your speaking of UW-Madison, or UI-Champaign they are in college towns itself… rather large ones.</p>
<p>As far as I know, the best cities for public transit in the United States are New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Boston, & Washington D.C.</p>
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<p>Go live in the South (pick any city at all from Houston to Raleigh) and tell me what’s subpar about Chicago’s public transportation.</p>
<p>I agree though that crime can be a problem and the cost of living is very high</p>
<p>gthopeful is exactly right, the south’s public transit as a whole is atrocious.</p>
<p>I love big cities and I’m pretty comfortable with the existence of crime - it almost seems wrong to me without it! There are also some cities, especially southern ones, that are very cheap to live in (take my hometown of New Orleans for example).</p>
<p>I wan to live in a big city, but not New York or cities of comparable size. Big is okay, but NYC is just TOO big. Not that I can think of any other cities that large… public transportation is also a must. I live in small town America and you have to drive EVERYWHERE. Public transportation is completely nonexistant. This is ridiculous. I refuse to get my license. DC has a great public transit system, and that’s where I’m headed even if I don’t go there for college.</p>
<p>I’m right with you applicannot, I love DC. I’m looking for a job right now and I’d love to live in Northern VA or the Silver Spring area but most of the job openings seem to be in NYC. :/</p>
<p>I live in a Raleigh suburb and I’m setting my sights on somewhere like Boston, Chicago or Montreal.</p>
<p>Not a big fan of New York.</p>
<p>Careful with that. i thought big citites were where i wanted to be too. i got into georgetown and columbia and i visited both. i appreciated the college and the city but i just didn’t like it enough. then i visited princeton and loved it. i still like big cities but just for visits. i don’t want to be there 24/7.</p>
<p>^^ well actually georgetown isn’t IN in the city. anyway my point has been made. maybe schools like georgetown and upenn would be good since they’re in cities but still have their own campus thing going on. columbia was just too much city. i can’t be in a place where i can’t see the stars at night and i have to catch a subway somewhere just to find grass</p>
<p>also princeton is like a 2 hour train ride from new york and philly. so if i get too tired of the campus i can just go to ny</p>
<p>I love visiting New York City but I don’t see it as an ideal place that I would want to live 24/7 in. Also, you’ll have plenty of time to visit the cities after college as most jobs are in suburbs of cities.</p>
<p>Another bad thing about going to school in the city is that there are more distractions compared to going to school in the middle of nowhere where you will be focused more on your schoolwork.</p>
<p>I live in a city of about 250k people, and it’s one of the fastest growing areas in the nation, but on the whole, all the private schools I attended made it seem like the population was about 5000 and I knew them all.</p>
<p>While I didn’t have population as a factor in choosing schools, I did keep it in mind as a sort of afterthought. When I visited Rice, the first thing I thought upon entering Houston was “**** this is a huge city.” Then after reaching the campus, I realized Rice is pretty much insulated. The campus isn’t humongous, but you could literally spend weeks there and the only indication you’d get of Houston would be the skyscrapers looming in the distance. I think that that is the right environment for me; I have my community immediately surrounding me, but if I want to, I can venture out into the 4th largest city in the US.</p>