College Location/Surrounding Areas

<p>So I have narrowed my choices for college down to UW-Oshkosh and UW-Whitewater. Oshkosh is a small city with two other (Neenah and Appleton) cities right by it while Whitewater is a town of 14,000 but an hour from Milwaukee and Madison. Oshkosh has more to do in the city but Whitewater’s campus has alot more going on there but i love the outdoors and Whitewater seems like a great town for that. So i was just wondering, how much does location matter? Would I run out of things to do and be bored in a smaller town? I come from a town with about 18,000 people right now.</p>