Ultimate College town poll (place, population, life, south)

[cpterp]

Originally Posted by grapico

duke is redneck and ghetto?

yep, and a whole lot of other terrible things. I've actually heard (more than once) that Durham does indeed suck, but dook being there worsens the situation by a factor of 1,001. I'd rather live in Mogadishu, Beirut, or Baghdad lol.

[Boston14]

Boston, MA

[Iconographer]

Ann Arbor, MI
State College, PA
College Station, TX
Madison, WI
Charlottesville, VA
Williamsburg, VA
Athens, GA
Chapel Hill, NC
Gainesville, FL
Tuscaloosa, AL
Oxford, MS
Princeton, NJ
Cambridge, MA

[th3vault]

Best:

ACC (Chapel Hill, Charlottesville, Tallahassee....)

SEC (Athens, Gainesville, Oxford, Tuscaloosa, Knoxville....)

Big 12 ( Austin, Boulder, Lawrence, College Station..)

Mid:

Big 10 ( Ann Arbor, Columbus, State College, Madison..)

MAC (Mt. Pleasant, Kalamazoo, Bowling Green...)

MWC (Laramie, Colorado Springs....)

Bad:

Pac 10 ( Los Angeles, Phoenix, Tucson and Seattle are not college towns)

WAC (Boise, Las Vegas, Fresno, San Jose...)

Conference USA (Orlando, Houston, Dallas, New Orleans...not college towns)

Big East ( Tampa, Pittsburgh, Cincinatti, Lousiville.....not college towns)

Sun belt (Miami, Boca Raton, Denton..)

[krudmonk]

Berkeley may have a bunch of idealistic idiots, but it's not a college town.

[AZLiam]

Originally Posted by th3vault

Best:

ACC (Chapel Hill, Charlottesville, Tallahassee....)

SEC (Athens, Gainesville, Oxford, Tuscaloosa, Knoxville....)

Big 12 ( Austin, Boulder, Lawrence, College Station..)

Mid:

Big 10 ( Ann Arbor, Columbus, State College, Madison..)

MAC (Mt. Pleasant, Kalamazoo, Bowling Green...)

MWC (Laramie, Colorado Springs....)

Bad:

Pac 10 ( Los Angeles, Phoenix, Tucson and Seattle are not college towns)

WAC (Boise, Las Vegas, Fresno, San Jose...)

Conference USA (Orlando, Houston, Dallas, New Orleans...not college towns)

Big East ( Tampa, Pittsburgh, Cincinatti, Lousiville.....not college towns)

Sun belt (Miami, Boca Raton, Denton..)

This makes absolutely no sense.

[thePR]

Originally Posted by th3vault

Best:

ACC (Chapel Hill, Charlottesville, Tallahassee....)

SEC (Athens, Gainesville, Oxford, Tuscaloosa, Knoxville....)

Big 12 ( Austin, Boulder, Lawrence, College Station..)

Mid:

Big 10 ( Ann Arbor, Columbus, State College, Madison..)

MAC (Mt. Pleasant, Kalamazoo, Bowling Green...)

MWC (Laramie, Colorado Springs....)

Bad:

Pac 10 ( Los Angeles, Phoenix, Tucson and Seattle are not college towns)

WAC (Boise, Las Vegas, Fresno, San Jose...)

Conference USA (Orlando, Houston, Dallas, New Orleans...not college towns)

Big East ( Tampa, Pittsburgh, Cincinatti, Lousiville.....not college towns)

Sun belt (Miami, Boca Raton, Denton..)

So you are just completely lumping conferences together? How do you get to determine whether or not it's a college town?

[machiavelli1]

Originally Posted by LovinDecatur

Ann Arbor, MI
State College, PA
College Station, TX
Madison, WI
Charlottesville, VA
Williamsburg, VA
Athens, GA
Chapel Hill, NC
Gainesville, FL
Tuscaloosa, AL
Oxford, MS
Princeton, NJ
Cambridge, MA

This is a perfect list of great college towns

[cpterp]

Originally Posted by krudmonk

Berkeley may have a bunch of idealistic idiots, but it's not a college town.

I guess Cal must not be a college? Why do the nuts on the right hate education/educated people so much?

[Iconographer]

Originally Posted by cpterp

I guess Cal must not be a college? Why do the nuts on the right hate education/educated people so much?

Well, they don't call it 'Berserkeley' for nothing.