<p>Philadelphia is overrated when speaking of a college town. </p>
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Agreed, Philthy has a pretty bad reputation from the people I’ve talked to, but IMO it’s fully deserved. Plus, their sports fans give the city a horrible image (at least the ones in the DC area)</p>
<p>^^ Like the Washington fans are so nice! Actually, while it is no secret that I am not a big fan of Philadelphia (I grew up in the suburbs), my college son likes it quite a bit. He has found the business community to be very vibrant and the social/club scene very fun.</p>
<p>For the last time, cities with over one million people in them are NOT college “towns.” I don’t care how many students go there.</p>
<p>^^DC fans are MUCH more friendly than philly fans. Of course both cities will have their drunken idiots, but of all the redskins/caps games I’ve been to, by far the worst fans I have seen have been when the eagles or flyers were in town.</p>
<p>blacksburg… jmu… is that town really good??? because all i hear are complaints</p>
<p>east coast can be cool… what about charleston (cofc)… that town is really cool…</p>
<p>personally i really hate dc</p>
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<p>I think in the greater Pittsburgh area there’s over a million people, but Oakland (the area the University of Pittsburgh) is located in certainly feels like a college town.</p>
<p>Athens is overrated</p>
<p>Half of you list Baltimore, Philly, and other large cities as “college towns”. They are not college towns.</p>
<p>IMO a college town is a place where you hear the name of a town and the first thing you think of is…now here comes a shocker…A COLLEGE!</p>
<p>baltimore is dangerous</p>
<p>Boston has a population of under 600,000. It has 27 colleges and universities, not including those in Cambridge and other surrounding communities ( i.e. BC, Bentley, Tufts, etc ) The student population makes up a significant number…although it is a city, I definately would consider it a college town.</p>
<p>Not me lje62. When I think of Boston, the first thing that comes to my mind is not any college. Cambridge on the other hand, now that is a college town.</p>
<p>I’m sorry, I live about 20 minutes out of Boston and it’s no college town. Sure, it’s a great place to go to college. But a college town? Absolutely not. When I think of Boston, I don’t think of BC, BU, Tufts, etc. I think of the Red Sox and crazy drivers. College towns, to me, are towns that are really just devoted to and cater to the college. I was in Bloomington, IN this weekend, and THAT was the definition of a college town. Everywhere took the IU cards en lieu of cash, IU apparel everywhere, etc. That’s not how it is in Boston. Cambridge, on the other hand, could definitely be a college town.</p>
<p>Boston is not a college town. I live in Cambridge, MA all my life.</p>
<p>Cambridge, MA is a collegetown. Boston is merely a city that just happens to have a multitude of colleges in it. It’s a great place to go to college, but it is far from what I think of what college town is like… like Ann Arbor with UMichigan…</p>
<p>It’s like the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN. Over 30% of the city is employed by the Mayo clinic and Rochester, MN is called “Med City” for a reason. The main economy in Rochester is the Mayo Clinic health care system… Main economic engine in Cambridge is Harvard/MIT…and UMichigan in Ann Arbor… Duke in Durham… University of Maryland College Park in College Park… Amherst college in Amherst…</p>
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<p>Overrated: Eugene, OR</p>
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LOL I love that. I hate Philly sooooooooo much! And for those complaining about DC fans, the only bad people are the scalpers at Wiz games. Why do us DC citizens hate Philthy? Well I doubt that it’s just us lol</p>
<p>Overrated: Any Texas town, Boston</p>
<p>Underrated: Portland, New York City, Pittsburgh</p>
<p>Yeah, Baltimore is dangerous</p>
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<p>That’s a laugh and a half…</p>