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Old 11-29-2008, 06:40 PM
 
Location: Houston
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West campus? Like he/she lives in the west campus ( area). Do they mean the UT campus? So they live at a dorm?

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Old 11-29-2008, 07:03 PM
 
Location: central Austin
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Okay, first, please do not call us "Austonians" that just happens to be the name of an obnoxious and obscenely priced condo under construction downtown. I hope the project fails just in punishment for that name alone!!

We are Austinites! (or really any other designation you want just not Austonians -- leave that for the people in Boston.

West Campus, yes immediately to the west of the UT Austin campus. West Campus area includes private dorms, frats, apartment complexes, single family homes, rent house, duplexes, condos, etc. There are dorms at UT but they are on campus proper, so not in "west campus".

West Campus is bounded by MLK on the south, Lamar to the west, the UT campus to the east, and I don't know, what? is 29th street the northern boundary? Roughly, anyway.

(Don't forget Austinites!)

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Old 11-29-2008, 07:13 PM
 
Location: Houston
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Thank you. I hope you're not too mad because I said "Austonians". Some smilies would have helped me

Is that a nice area ? I don't remember if it was the east or west side that was not that nice.
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Old 11-29-2008, 07:32 PM
 
Location: Central Texas
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Well, it depends on what you mean by "nice". Can you define what it means to you? It's definitely student city, with LOTS of traffic (both foot and vehicular). At one point in my life, I would have (and did, I lived there) loved it, but that was long long ago in a galaxy far far away.
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Old 11-29-2008, 07:43 PM
 
Location: Houston
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Well, just nice looking area. The area around UT itself seemed really nice. Nice like not run down etc.
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Old 11-29-2008, 07:50 PM
 
Location: Coffee Bean
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I think West Campus is nice - occasional homeless folk & "drag rats" chillin', but you have way worse than that in Houston (I saw one of your other posts). BTW - I'm not sure what part of Austin you were in that was "boring," but the downtown and SoCo areas are pretty "not boring."
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Old 11-30-2008, 10:19 AM
 
Location: SW Austin & Wimberley
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West Campus is bounded by MLK on the south, Lamar to the west, the UT campus to the east, and I don't know, what? is 29th street the northern boundary? Roughly, anyway.
That's exactly how I'd call it.

I'd add that West Campus is generally underclass students and it's considered more of a party, rowdy area than north campus where there are more grad students, professors and non-students.
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