<p>I think Houston would be a great city to live in.</p>
<p>What are good cities in California? San Fransisco? diego? LA?</p>
<p>I’d go with Berkeley, Stanford, L.A., NYC, Boston</p>
<p>RAlec114: San Francisco and Los Angeles are almost always the two most favored by Californians. San Diego is somewhat forgotten by many, but there are some who prefer it. There are actually also a couple of people who prefer Sacramento (like me).</p>
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<p>Personally, I hate LA except the Venice Beach/Rednodo Beach area and Westwood. LA is just too smoggy, crowded, and dirty. UCLA is the only school in LA that I would consider attending (may end up being the only UC I apply to).</p>
<p>SD is really nice. UCSD is in a great location in La Jolla (great area), but it’s really expensive to live there (too many dorky students for me to attend UCSD). USD overlooks Mission Bay and is in a pretty nice location; absolutely beautiful campus too. SDSU is farther inland and it’s hotter there, but it’s still near the beach and Mission Beach is the party beach in SD. I prefer SD because the laid back beach atmosphere, but I probably won’t go to school there. </p>
<p>I haven’t visited SF in a number of years, but it’s a neat city. Of course Stanford is nice and Berkeley is interesting. Lot’s of homeless in SF.</p>
<p>“I second seahawks’ suggestion of Atlanta and Detroit. Also be sure to include South Central LA and South Boston.”</p>
<p>You should also check out Gary, Flint, and Cleveland. All wonderful places.</p>
<p>So seriously, there’s a lot of nice places in Texas, and in the suburbs of DC.</p>
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<p>Some of Atlanta is really nice (the parts developed for the Olympics), but there are definitely a lot of places where you don’t want to be</p>
<p>London, where I’m going.</p>
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What makes Berkeley a great place to live in (outside of the campus)? It seems like a typical college-town but slightly dangerous (from what I’ve heard), though I’m still applying to Cal partially because of San Francisco. Amazing city with cultural events (artists I follow on twitter, events I find out about online, etc. always seem to be happening there) and gourmet but costly food. Lots of hobos, some even soliciting, and if you’re from a nice quiet suburb it may feel weird walking past them without even making eye contact (which you have to do since there are so many).</p>
<p>L.A. and Westwood (near UCLA) are nice, but good luck finding parking anywhere and getting through traffic.</p>
<p>I’ve love to live in Boston during my college years, but I’m still considering colleges near that area. Same with Portland, Oregon. NYC just seems too expensive, though I guess any city would be.</p>
<p>Portland, OR. Seatle, WA.</p>
<p>Stanford is not in a city, unless you count a 50 minute to 1.5 hr commute, depending on traffic, to San Francisco as being in a city. The University of San Francisco (or San Francisco State out in Merced/Lakeside) is the only undergraduate college really in the city, and it is pretty small.</p>
<p>I wouldn’t say Detroit is a good city for college, unless you consider Ann Arbor to be Detroit, which is a stretch because it is 30-40 miles away.</p>
<p>Boston and DC are great college cities. [url=<a href=“http://www.coolpgh.pitt.edu/]Pittsburgh[/url”>http://www.coolpgh.pitt.edu/]Pittsburgh[/url</a>] is a great city for colleges too, and it has the second highest % population of students of a major city in the US. It has Pitt, Carnegie Mellon, Duquesne, Point Park, Carlow, Chatham, and in the suburbs, Robert Morris University, along with several tech/art schools. Students at Pitt and CMU get public transportation for free and a lot of free/cheap admissions to things around the city. Pittsburgh isn’t going to be as bustling as a NYC or Chicago though, but it has plenty going on.</p>
<p>DC -> Georgetown ?</p>
<p>^Georgetown is in a really awkward location. It’s not exactly in DC… </p>
<p>its location is terrible lol, i visited</p>
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<p>I’m wondering why being near Detroit would be a good thing :b</p>
<p>With over fifty colleges of various kinds and all sorts of urban attractions in case you get bored, Boston as a college town is absolutely awesome:]</p>
<p>^ Second Calico wholeheartedly :)</p>
<p>Why do people think that Boston and New York are college towns? They’re huge cities, not college towns. Chapel Hill, Eugene, Ann Arbor, and Athens are college towns.</p>
<p>^ Clarification: what I meant by my post was that Cambridge, Massachusetts was an amazing college town.</p>
<p>^ Would Cambridge count as one?</p>
<p>EDIT: posted before seeing fledgling’s post</p>
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<p>Georgetown is absolutely in DC. That’s like saying Penn or Drexel aren’t in Philadelphia because they are three miles from the Liberty Bell. Georgetown is <2 miles to DuPont Circle, about 2.5 miles to the White House and 3 miles to the Mall. The problem is that the metro doesn’t go to Georgetown, not that you can’t easily get a bus, to all central parts of the city. You can walk it too, if you don’t mind those distances. It’s actually in a great part of the city, IMO, it just needs the metro to have a spine out there.</p>