forbes top college towns

[notreally]

everyone likes lists, and i knew you all would be in complete agreement with this one.

forbes top college sports towns

 

[Texas Jack]

"home Price Comparison Index, public-school quality and crime rates" are the defining factors for a great college town?


WTF are they smoking? This is the most retarded list ever.

College students rent then don't buy homes, they go to college not primary public schools, and they kids are the ones responsible for most f the crime.


The guy that made that list has probably been eating his own feces for the last 2 weeks...

NO RESPECT!

 

[DigglerontheHoof]

Any college town list that has CS and Norman above Austin is an abject failure...unless of course they consider Austin too big to qualify as a "town" which isn't the case here. Stunningly horrible list.

 

[Horn87]

also not much credibility when you have Fayettenam on the list, too---wonder what the Shark thinks about that list??

 

[PropositionJoe]

have you ever been to fayetteville?

really nice area.

the bentonville/rogers/fayetteville area is pretty darn nice.

 

[cochamps]

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[accuratehorn]

Sure, Fayetteville is nice, if you could remove all traces of human presence from the area. But how College Station gets on any such list, unless you are a farm animal, is beyond me.

 

[PropositionJoe]

i dont know that i would classify austin as a college town. it's just a great city overall...but not a college town.

all in the eye of the beholder i suppose.

 

[cochamps]

and I would NEVER consider any beholder opinion from one who chose aggy. not that PJ is a bad guy, his opinion in this category just needs to be summarily dismissed.

 

[PropositionJoe]

point taken.

 

[SchertzHorn]

Having been to Madison, Wisconsin for a game, I can tell you that if that is not #1 or #2, the list is way off. I was there for the Wisco vs Michigan game last year (I chose it over watching the horns in Waco..), and it was ridiculous. And the fact that Ann Arbor is #1 makes me laugh because a street vendor was selling shirts that said "Ann Arbor is a *****." Either way, pretty bad list.

 

[BeatYaEasyEasy]

1. Austin, TX
2. Madison, WI
3. Coral Gables, FL
4. Palo Alto, CA
5. Athens, GA

At this point, are we including sports as a factor? If not, how about Pepperdine? Every time I got a flyer from them in high school, I started to drool. Do we consider St. John's (NYC) in this? This was far and away the WORST list I've ever seen put together, and not just because Norman and Malfunction Junction were on there.

 

[Rio Frio]

College towns are built around colleges/universities.

Austin isn't a college town; it's a city that happens to have a university in it.

 

[PropositionJoe]

agree with rio.

in my mind austin is not a college town.

 

[accuratehorn]

I agree that Austin is not the small town it used to be, with pretty much only state government and UT here as employers.
So if your definition of "college town" is the relatively small town revolving around the school there, I get the objection.
But it has to be a nice relatively small town, not just a corn field with a college planted in its midst. Madison, Wisconsin is a nice place, with a beautiful lake lapping at the patio of the student union where you can sit outside and sip a beer and eat the local favorite, brats. Of course, summer is recommended for this activity.
I still don't get putting a place like College Station on such a list. What's the attraction to going there? Being close enough to Austin and Houston to be able to have something to do on weekends is hardly a great endorsement of a college town.

 

[notreally]

i like norman, but i can't imagine it is any 90% of people's top ten. just thought i would jab a little bit.

i think austin is a college town sometimes..... if you are on 6th street on the weekends, or during football season. other times it seems like a big city with a college there. think it depends on where you are at. however, there is hardly a big city, outside of portland, where you will find as many layed back people and places to hang out as austin.

in that way, it still makes it feel like a college town. still some of the identity of a boulder/athens town, but just a lot bigger like portland.

 

[centexorange]

i dont know that i would classify austin as a college town. it's just a great city overall...but not a college town.

I guess it depends on what you consider a great college town. UT is huge thus taking some of the close knit college family style you would get at a Rice or a NC. But it has everything to offer just more on a larger scale spread out thus taking away from the atomosphere. My son loves it and graduates in May and where having to pry him away.