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<p>Please do not disparage my city, especially while discussing sports, which you clearly know nothing about…</p>
<p>Agree, when speaking of college town Philadephia is overrated.</p>
<p>Again, I’d just like to point out that a city with a population of 500,000-8.5 million is NOT a college town.</p>
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<p>JMU is not in Blacksburg–VA Tech is.</p>
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<p>Yes, because all other cities are free from idiotic drunks…</p>
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<p>When I speak of college town, and I include a large city such as Philadephia… that’s where I’m more not talking about the city as a whole, but it’s college population/ environment/ offering to a college student… sorta how to explain it.</p>
<p>I see. As in what, what the city offers to the college kids?</p>
<p>Well, that may be well and all, but it’s not exactly a college town; rather, it is a city large enough that college students have several opportunities to take advantage of.</p>
<p>As a current UW-Madison student, I can safely say that Madison is HIGHLY overrated. State Street was fun for the first semester, but then I’d eaten at every restaurant and done everything there is to do. There are a lot of bars, and I think that’s why it’s so overrated.</p>
<p>Champaign/Urbana Illinois is highly UNDERrated. I visited the place with my younger sister in September, and the town was amazing. The university is squeezed between two totally different towns, each with their own atmosphere. There were a lot more mature looking restaurants/shops than you would find in other college towns. </p>
<p>And more for underrated:
Bloomington, Ind.
Duluth, Mn.
Lawrence, Ks.
University of Washington-University District of Seattle
Missoula, Mt.</p>
<p>Yeah I’ve had University of Washington- Seattle in mind… with all the nature around and large city of Seattle. Though I think the campus may be small, same for student body.</p>
<p>I never knew Duluth was seen as a college town.</p>
<p>Columbia, Missouri (Mizzou), Lawrence, Kansas (KU), Manhattan, Kansas (K-State) and Fort Collins, Colorado (Colorado State) are all seriously underrated – great college towns. I went to school in Durham, NC (Duke) and later worked in Chapel Hill, NC (UNC) – both overrated college towns, in my opinion.</p>
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<p>WOW! What an ignorant comment. You do know that 1 out of 4 Bostonians are college students right? So many fantastic colleges in the Boston area, it is flooded with college students.</p>
<p>And yet, you have several Bostonians above who clearly reject the notion that Boston is a college town. Besides, my comment was not made out of “ignorance”. I actually know Boston well. I have many friends who attended MIT, so I visited Boston frequently. I never got the college-town vibe. Cambridge had a college town feel to it, but Boston did not.</p>
<p>Like I said, I have nothing against Boston. It is an excellent city. And yes, it has a lot of students. So do NYC and Los Angeles. None of those cities can be labled “college town”. To me, a college town revolves around a university (or a cluster of colleges). In a college town, the primary sports teams are college teams. In Boston, the Celtics, Patriots and Sox eclipse the Crimson, Eagles or Beavers. In NYC, the Jets, Giants and Knicks rule. In LA, the Raiders and Lakers trump all but the Trojans. I did not get the feeling that the city of Boston was particularly loyal or fond of any one (or many) of its universities.</p>
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<p>I dont understand how you could call it overrated, then. Philadelphia definitely caters to college students, and is a LOT cheaper than cities like NY and Boston…</p>
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<p>Ummmmm who are the Beavers?</p>
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<p>The technical school on the banks of the Charles.</p>
<p>Totally underrated - Lexington, KY (UK)</p>
<p>Well omaplata is vaguely correct in that 400,000 students come to the Boston area each fall for college. However, I still stand by my statement that Boston is no college town :)</p>
<p>Eliza B. The numbers I am seeing indicate that there are about 250,000 students in the greater Boston area, not 400,000.</p>
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Sorry, you’ll have to forgive me for the main topic of this article, it’s not exactly CC-appropriate! I’m not sure how accurate this is, I just used Google and this came up. However I’ve heard the 400,000 number tossed around an awful lot by Boston realtors. You may very well end up being right with the 250,000.</p>
<p>250,000 students from how many different colleges and universities? competing with each others is the definition of a college town??? So, Boston has a feel of unity? And students are valued customers by area businesses? Just curious.</p>