[matty122]

Originally Posted by Tiger Beer

Ann Arbor, East Lansing, Kalamazoo, Mt. Pleasant, etc.

Mt. Pleasant is a nice college town....approximately 16,000 attend Central Michigan University there...low cost of living...

A lot of people talk about the bad economy in Michigan...and it's true to an extent. BUT...going to college and being a college student...it's actually better to live in places where the cost of living is lower anyways.

The best places to be a student are in expensive places like New York, San Francisco, Chicago, etc....as you'd have access to good jobs after you graduate. But affording those cities while a student brings on another challenge altogether, one that you might get sidetracked just trying to earn survival money let alone getting to classes and focusing there.

Additionally, if you are in a Mt. Pleasant type of college town...it's not living and studying and being in Davis, California is going to bring in high paying Davis jobs to right away either...you'd have to move on from Davis or Mt. Pleasant or whatever other college town anyways.

All I'm really saying is, look for a good college town for college, if thats what you want, and let the rest fall into place in its own time. With the exception of you knowing exactly what you want to study right now, and then find a college that offers that program and known for it, etc.

Keep in mind that out-of-state tuition occurs if you are coming from out-of-state, and your tuition might cost a lot more. In that sense, you might want to look at your current state for their college towns. Also, MI isn't that great - flat, cold most of the time, etc. I always kinda regretted staying in MI for college...as it's pretty damn cold during most of the schoolyear. By the time warm weather finally comes, it's time to buckle down for exams, and then you don't see your friends for 3 months and then it's suddenly cold again when you see them again in the Fall.

yea Ann Arbor, East Lansing and Kalamazoo were the 3 towns she referred me to. fact is i have desire to stay where i am after the obvious happens, and it will be the same thing id have to do here anwhere else so i figure id look into diff places.