Cute, Safe, Affordable town to move to?

[bellafinzi]

Originally Posted by ckhthankgod

Interesting...I kind of get that sense too, but I think that is the case when you live in a city or town with a college. Even here in Syracuse, there seems to be a different vibe between the areas around the University and the other parts of the city, especially West of I-81.

Then, you have the different vibe from when school is in and when it isn't in. There still are things going on around the University, but it is just toned down a bit.

Just around SU. In the rest of Syracuse area you'd never notice if Syracuse University is in session or not.

There's huge difference between Syracuse and Ithaca.

Onondaga County is well over 400,000 people without counting the student population at the colleges. Tompkins County (Ithaca) is only about 60,000 if you exclude the college students.

-Ithaca is a classic small town college-town.

Syracuse is a mid-size metropolitan area which happens to have a well-known college with only 15,000 undergrad students.

[ckhthankgod]

Originally Posted by bellafinzi

Just around SU. In the rest of Syracuse area you'd never notice if Syracuse University is in session or not.

There's huge difference between Syracuse and Ithaca.

Onondaga County is well over 400,000 people without counting the student population at the colleges. Tompkins County (Ithaca) is only about 60,000 if you exclude the college students.

-Ithaca is a classic small town college-town.

Syracuse is a mid-size metropolitan area which happens to have a well-known college with only 15,000 undergrad students.

True, I was looking more at the University area and the overall Syracuse environment.

I think Tompkins County has 100,000 people in it now. So, it might be more like 70-75,000 without students. College Navigator - Cornell University

College Navigator - Ithaca College

College Navigator - Tompkins-Cortland Community College

Google - public data

[bellafinzi]

You're right. For some reason I've always thought Cornell had over 30,000 students. According to this link http://dpb.cornell.edu/documents/1000171.pdf Cornell only has about 20,000 enrolled there.

Ithaca College's enrollment is about 6,000.

Ithaca's metro is 101,000.
Ithaca, NY Metropolitan Statistical Area (CBSA) Population and Components of Change

So take 101,000, minus 26,000 students at both Cornell and Ithaca College and you have about 75,000 year around residents of Tompkins County who are not students in college.