<p>I like college towns and would never want to go to college in a big city. My son grew up in lovely suburbs surrounded by nature and wants a change of pace for college.</p>
<p>College is a perfect time to live in a big city. Housing is provided, you are young and unencumbered and ready for fun. What better time?</p>
<p>Interestingly, of all the people I know who went to ‘elite’ colleges in big cities (Columbia, Harvard, Berkeley, Upenn) only one of them lives in a big city now.</p>