The Best College Towns!

[Cuse0507]

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Okay I don’t see how Chapel Hill is seen as a college town. From what I just seen on google street view it was more half ghost town/ half college town so maybe. Though still then it wouldn’t get so many votes on this thread, hmm…

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<p>Haha are you serious? Chapel Hill is routinely ranked by Forbes (and others) as one of the best college towns in the nation. Sorry, but judging a town from what you see on Google Earth doesn’t really qualify you to make that kind of statement. I’m sure if you actually visited Chapel Hill in person, you would easily see why it is considered one of the best.</p>

[CRYSOMEMORE]

<p>New York City
Houston
LA
Chicago</p>

<p>srs u guise lotsa stuff to do.</p>

[einnob]

<ol>
<li>Boston</li>
<li>Pasadena, CA</li>
<li>Berkeley, CA</li>
<li>New Haven, CT</li>
<li>Santa Barbara
those are just some that I have visited…</li>
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[diontechristmas]

<p>Boston is a city, not a college town.</p>

[sapphire_ocean]

<p>CA San luis obispo!!! amazing</p>

[Dukefan]

<p>Boulder, (university of colorado)… thats where im going, its a beautiful spot right next to the mountains with a small city setting, yet not far from the big city.</p>

[einnob]

<p>SLO, really? I want to go there for college!</p>

[Sam_Lee]

<p>Evanston (Northwestern)
<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evanston,_Illinois[/url]”>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evanston,_Illinois&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Once the home of one of the first Marshall Field’s and Sears stores in suburbia, Evanston remains an important shopping destination for the north suburbs and North Side of Chicago, with numerous commercial centers throughout the city. The principal ones are as follows:</p>

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Downtown - centered around the Davis St. Metra and “L” stops, Evanston’s downtown adjoins Northwestern University. Over 300 businesses, several highrise office and residential buildings, three traditional low-rise shopping areas, an 18-screen movie theatre, and over 85 restaurants </p>

<p>Central Street - actually several shopping districts linked along the northernmost of the city’s principal east-west arteries, with the most active clustered around the Central Street Metra station and characterized by specialty shops and restaurants[29] in a walkable environment with an eclectic, vintage “small-town feel” strongly protected by the community</p>

<p>Dempster Street - just off the Dempster “L” stop; over 60 shops, many of them small and hip, including Bagel Art, the vegetarian Blind Faith Cafe, The Mexican Shop (affordable world women’s clothing and accessories), 2nd Hand Tunes, lollie (children’s boutique), and FolkWorks Gallery.</p>

<p>Main Street - approximately 3 blocks of small, interesting shops abutting both a CTA and Metra stop, in a gentrifying neighborhood that also is home to the Evanston Arts Depot</p>

<p>Howard Street - many small shops line the city’s border with Chicago; at the west end of the avenue, near the border with Skokie, Howard Center, a small thriving shopping mall, was built in the 1990s after some controversy</p>

<p>Chicago Avenue - not a separate shopping district per se, this extension of what is called Clark Street in Chicago runs parallel to the rail lines and is the principal north-south artery in Evanston from Howard Street north to its terminus at Northwestern University. Chicago Avenue connects the Main Street, Dempster Street, and Downtown shopping districts. Once home to numerous auto dealerships, it has attracted numerous restaurants and a growing number of multi-unit residential structures and is lined with interesting businesses.

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[sapphire_ocean]

<p>einnob- yes its awesome there is a farmers market at least once a month, lots of shops, pizza places, and it feels so safe you can just roam around the town at night,. i visited for a couple days there- plus all the guys are completely gorgeous! beautiful people go there =) its green and pretty there too!</p>

[originpranks]

<p>Ann Arbor, Chapel Hill, Bloomington, and Madison.
lol at Evanston</p>

[thegraduate2009]

<p>How can nobody mention Morgantown?
It is a college kids paradise: clubs, bars, cheap food and drinks, parties at every house you walk by. On days of the football games the town is crazy and after the mountaineers win well you all have heard the stories haha</p>

[USCTexan]

<p>Chapel Hill, NC (UNC)
Athens, GA (UGA)
Charlottesville, VA (UVA)
Austin, TX (UT)</p>

[USCTexan]

<p>WRONG! UNC chapel hill is an amazing college town. everything around campus/houses are in walking distance to down town. franklin street and surrounding streets are booming with bars, restaurants, and shopping! it’s one of the most beautiul and fun colleges ive visited while in college!</p>

[Sam_Lee]

<p>[Community</a> Profile: Evanston, IL Real Estate – chicagotribune.com](<a href=“http://www.chicagotribune.com/classified/realestate/communities/chi-evanston_chomes_0213feb13,0,6622787.story]Community”>Evanston not your everyday suburb)</p>