<p>San Luis Obispo, hands down.</p>
<p>22 posts to get to Austin?</p>
<p>Seriously?</p>
<p>Isla Vista</p>
<p>I’ve never been in Austin, but is it that good as college town? Anyway, Texas is one of the finest states of America, and Houston, in my opinion, is tied with Denver as best metro area in America (Denver = better suburbs, no hurricanes; Houston = superb highways, no tornados). Would move there in a blink for a living, but not sure for college.</p>
<p>I guess that Austin has potential to be a great college town, though I’ve never been there (yet).</p>
<p>I am not applying to UGA because it doesnt appeal to me
but Athens, Ga has to be the one of the best College towns out there.
Its got the Music scene, the arts, the football, the bars, and the people if you like really country kinds of people lol (please dont take that last one offensivly I have lived about 20 miles from Athens my entire life)</p>
<p>Ithaca, NY, though I’m slightly biased</p>
<p>Austin. I have been there a lot (both parents went to UT) and if I could go to any college in the world, I would choose UT, and a big part of that is just how awesome Austin is.
I live in Las Cruces, NM, some consider it a college town (15k undergrads, 90k residents), New Mexico State is here, but it certainly is NOT a good college town (but I do NOT see it as a college town, it’s just everyone who graduates from HS here goes to college here).</p>
<p>Trust me, you don’t want a college town, you want a city.
When there are only about two places for students to go, you get bored.
In a city, you can’t possibly run out of options.</p>
<p>Scranton, PA makes me want to die. The only thing we can do is “get smashed” at the same three houses every night (which is tough for a non-drinker like myself) or go to the smallest mall on earth.</p>
<p>Go to a city, you won’t regret it! Campus life is SO overrated.</p>
<p>I have one son in Denver, and two sons in DC…both are great places to go to college–rich college life, great cities with all kinds of opportunities.</p>
<p>I third Ann Arbor.</p>
<p>Shocked Charlottesville hasn’t been mentioned!</p>
<p>Provo for most boring</p>
<p>Ithaca, NY–one of the best. Collegetown, off of Cornell’s campus, is just a part of a great college city.</p>
<p>Champaign-Urbana seemed like a great college town when I was there.</p>
<p>Worst: Fairbanks, AK. Just try to top that.</p>
<p>Do we really need 60 different threads asking the same question?</p>
<p>Worst: Texas Tech</p>
<p>It’s in Lubbock,TX which has like the highest STD concentration.& the campus is on a farm!</p>
<p>New Haven, obviously.</p>
<p>Atlanta is ok.</p>
<p>agree with Binghamton, NY has the WORST college town. more than 10 per cent of the population of the residents in binghamton are under poverty line. there’s NOTHING to do here. seriously…it’s a dead town.</p>