<p>Why do these innocent questions always devolve into nit picky arguments?</p>
<p>I don’t know if it’s the best, but I’ll throw in for Ithaca, NY, with both Ithaca College and Cornell. Nowhere else has massive waterfalls you can swim under right in town, the only seat of the Dalai Lama in north America, a funky population that created its own money and elected the only communist mayor in the US, and overall probably the most quintessential isolated collegetown experience one could imagine in absolutely gorgeous wine country with gorges running everywhere.</p>