<p>I have nothing against Vassar College, the area around the school or the poster who made the comments below. And I don’t wish to nitpick. But, just to add my two cents …</p>
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<p>Which immediate area? And how are we defining “nice?”</p>
<p>The area west of campus (to the river) is a mixture of densely packed old single-family homes, semi-industrial and small urban. The area east of the campus is very typical single family home suburbia.
North and south of campus is very mixed … hard to describe. </p>
<p>I’d say, overall, more non-descript than nice.</p>
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<p>The Town of Poughkeepsie (where Vassar is located) is not a suburb of (the city of) Poughkeepsie. Poughkeepsie is way too small to have its own suburbs. I’d bet the number of Town residents who actually work in Poughkeepsie could be counted on a few hands.</p>
<p>And, I’m not sure what our reference points are but I’d hardly call Poughkeepsie a “medium-sized” city. The entire population of Poughkeepsie could fit in any baseball stadium in the country … with room for another 10,000 people. To me, that’s tiny.</p>