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I already feel biased towards Guelph for reasons I will soon explain, and I feel like most people will naturally gravitate towards Ottawa because it is a larger city and has lots going on for a city of its size, but where would you rather live and study at the university level? Or just live in, in general?
What I like a lot about Guelph is that I've never heard of anyone describing living there as anything but great. It is in close proximity to Toronto (~1hr, $12 for the GO), it's very clean, and it has a better climate than Ottawa, and especially Sudbury where I have always lived. The university seems better than Carleton and I absolutely adore the look of the downtown area. There seems to be a healthy local music community, and the young population, to which I belong, seems to promote a lot of cool businesses around good food and the arts. I've heard great things about the Geography department from one of my professors here at Laurentian also. I'm applying for grad school in geography.
What I have going on in Ottawa is basically that my girlfriend wants to head there for her Masters program. And that Ottawa is, I'm sure, more exciting than Sudbury. I'd be theoretically studying at Carleton.
What would draw you to one over the other? I'm especially interested if you'd be leaning more towards Ottawa, to try and change and my leaning.
Are you planning to live there after school is finished? If not, I would choose based on the school that best fits your needs.
It depends. If I feel compelled to, I may. I don't necessarily feel the need to vacate and go straight to a large city.
Both programs seem equally good as choices, so it's tough to use that as a factor.
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