College town satellites: Which college town located near a major city do you prefer? (Atlanta, quality)
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Location: northern Vermont - previously NM, WA, & MA
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Boulder, CO blows away all the competition. It has a great downtown with character (and many characters to be sure). It's setting by the Flatirons of the Rocky Mountains is gorgeous. Denver is certainly better than Raleigh, Detroit, KC or OKC. Atlanta and Pittsburgh could be argued, but Denver seems more appealing to me. CU may not measure up academicly to UNC or Michigan however Boulder is probably the best college town I have seen.
I voted Athens for the music scene, but Lawrence KS is an awesome city. Was just there last month. Free State Brewery for the win. Oh and get wings at Jefferson's.
I attend unc charlotte so... f*** Chapel Hill. But I love Athens. have a lot of friends and family that go there and it's quite prestigious. Downtown Athens is somethin special and I live in Atlanta and love it here.
I would've gone with Tuscaloosa, but I'm not that big on Birmingham and the academics there really don't reflect it's popularity...
I live in Chapel Hill and...sigh...it's the town that used to want to be the Southern Berkeley, before deciding it would rather be the Southern Mill Valley.
It takes over an hour to get from the eastern edge of Pittsburgh to Morgantown. I know because I used to live on the eastern edge of Pittsburgh, and it took me over an hour to get from there to Morgantown. Even if you leave from, say, Brookline, it would still take over an hour.
Trust Me--- I'd love to agree with you, but Morgantown really isn't that far outside of Pittsburgh
it takes maybe a half an hour to get to Pittsburgh
But Morgantown's culture is not like Pittsburgh's
Agreed...it's a straight shot on the interstate and people from WVU are always in Pittsburgh on the weekends. They go hand in hand in a lot of ways since they're literally the only two communities within the region that are doing well.
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Oh and get wings at Jefferson's.
