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Location: Austin, TX/Chicago, IL/Houston, TX/Washington, DC
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Ann Arbor, Michigan Ithaca, New York. And Madison, Wisconsin.
Austin, Texas is NOT a college town. College towns roughly have a Metropolitan Area population of about 80,000-700,000 people.
Austin at 1.8 Million is far too large and far too expansive to be a college town like the traditional image it had some 20-30 years ago when it was small as hell.
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Ann Arbor, Michigan Ithaca, New York. And Madison, Wisconsin.
Austin, Texas is NOT a college town. College towns roughly have a Metropolitan Area population of about 80,000-700,000 people.
Austin at 1.8 Million is far too large and far too expansive to be a college town like the traditional image it had some 20-30 years ago when it was small as hell.
Yeah Austin is a major city at this point, able to attract people across the U.S. ...and starting to do it for the world...SXSW is now huge.
Location: northern Vermont - previously NM, WA, & MA
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Burlington, VT is my favorite. Of course UVM does not rank well in the NCAA like all the schools mentioned by the OP; that aside Burlington is a beautiful and sophisticated little city. I love the mountain and lake setting with the very vibrant downtown. My only complaint is it's like Boulder/Berkeley lite with too many hippies but I guess that adds character.
Chapel Hill is another one of my favorites. It's a very clean and attractive college town with remarkably beautiful architecture and adds character to the otherwise very dull and vanilla Raleigh-Durham area.
Last edited by Champ le monstre du lac; 12-11-2010 at 01:35 AM..
Yeah Austin is a major city at this point, able to attract people across the U.S. ...and starting to do it for the world...SXSW is now huge.
I don't know dude. I mean it's true that we're far larger than we were 20 years ago, but UT still holds very much sway in Austin. It may be relatively big (I wouldn't call it a major city but it's alright), but it's still got a college town feel.
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