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Both of these towns have a nice epicenter and are walk friendly with a university crowd. Which would you prefer to call home and why?
The former has warm weather with campus swimming and the Gator sports and some nice hills and moss trees and rents as low as $400/month or even less. 2 hours to Daytona, 2 hours to Tampa, an hour to Cedar Key, 2 hours to Disney
Poughkeepsie has university feel also with vintage homes and its advantage is the last stop on a train line destined for New York City in an easy day's trip...also Catskills and Albany and Saratoga and Lake George not far. Rents around $700-1000/month
I would say both locations FEEL about as densely populated as each other, but Poughkeepsie is much closer to a major metropolitan area where as Gainesville IS the center of its zone
I spent five years in Gainesville and only visited Poughkeepsie once. I've had two family members attend Vassar.
But I don't know how to compare them. lol. I think if I did it all over again I would have chosen to attend Vassar instead of UF. In retrospect I think I would have had a richer experience going to a small liberal arts college and being close to NYC. But I did have a great time at UF and know there's a lot that I would be sad to have missed there as well.
I grew up in Poughkeepsie and only visited Gainesville, but saw no similarities (Napa, California is about the closet thing to the Poughkeepsie Area i've seen).
Vassar is one of many schools in Poughkeepsie (the others being Marist, New Paltz and the Culinary Institute of America, and West Point about 45 minutes away).
When I was growing up, IBM was the culture du jour. The college culture was secondary. Media culture was NYC.
Sadly the Poughkeespie downtown area is now a very depressing mess, but the local communities of Red Hook, New Paltz, Woodstock, Rhinebeck, Milbrook and Maybe Hyde Park gave the area a nice do-it-yourself, Hippy/Punk/Artsy environment.
I lived in poughkeepsie and kingston which is not far from pk and just movex to fort myers florida and i cant wait to save enough money to get back to ny there is no place i rather be its beautiful so much to do just something about it. Plus if your going to college you have new paltz and kingston not far they are hip and fun and you can take a train to the city. Definitely go to Poughkeepsie over florida
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