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Question: Choose your top 5 favorites of the university towns/cities listed below
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Auburn, Alabama		  
#2
Tempe, Arizona		  
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Berkeley, California		  
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Boulder, Colorado		  
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New Haven, Connecticut		  
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Gainesville, Florida		  
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Champaign, Illinois		  
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Iowa City, Iowa		  
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Lawrence, Kansas		  
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Baton Rouge, Louisiana		  
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Columbia, Maryland		  
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Cambridge, Massachusetts		  
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Ann Arbor, Michigan		  
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Columbia, Missouri		  
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Lincoln, Nebraska		  
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Ithaca, New York		  
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Durham, North Carolina		  
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Fargo, North Dakota		  
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Columbus, Ohio		  
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State College, Pennsylvania		  
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Austin, Texas		  
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Provo, Utah		  
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Charlottesville, Virginia		  
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Morgantown, West Virginia		  
#25
Madison, Wisconsin		  
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JA
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« on: June 15, 2017, 09:46:04 PM »
« edited: June 15, 2017, 10:15:09 PM by JA »
1. Boulder
2. Ann Arbor
3. Madison
4. Ithaca
5. Austin

Note: Columbia, Maryland should be Towson, Maryland
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« Reply #1 on: June 15, 2017, 09:58:54 PM »
I'm sorry, but any college town poll that does not include Tuscaloosa is not worth voting in.
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« Reply #2 on: June 15, 2017, 10:04:34 PM »
Columbia, Maryland? For Howard Community College?!
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« Reply #3 on: June 15, 2017, 10:07:31 PM »
Morgantown is the correct answer.
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« Reply #4 on: June 15, 2017, 10:14:40 PM »
Quote from: Nutmeg on June 15, 2017, 10:04:34 PM
Columbia, Maryland? For Howard Community College?!

Damn it, I meant to put Towson. I don't even know why a I put Columbia.
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« Reply #5 on: June 15, 2017, 10:39:42 PM »
No Bloomington, IN?  Sad That one's beautiful.  Palo Alto is amazing too, but it's not really a "college town."
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« Reply #6 on: June 15, 2017, 10:41:53 PM »
« Edited: June 15, 2017, 10:46:22 PM by L.D. Smith »
Where's Lynchburg, VA? Even without Liberty, there's still two other decent sized colleges there.

Oh, also no Palo Alto, CA? Can't mention Cal without the rival of Stanford

No College Station, TX either? No Asheville, NC? No Bend or Salem, OR?

Tsk tsk.




Whatever Nobody Beats Berkeley!
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« Reply #7 on: June 15, 2017, 10:51:28 PM »
I know people are going to be upset by the exclusion of numerous good college towns and cities. I'm sorry! I wanted to keep the list relatively short, so I only chose 1 from each state and only the ones that stood out to me. If this was a complete list there'd probably be over 75 or 100 places on it Tongue
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« Reply #8 on: June 15, 2017, 10:52:56 PM »
Quote from: RFayette on June 15, 2017, 10:39:42 PM
No Bloomington, IN?  Sad That one's beautiful.  Palo Alto is amazing too, but it's not really a "college town."

Bloomington is my vote. If not, Madison, Columbus and Boulder are the top choices.
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« Reply #9 on: June 15, 2017, 11:39:55 PM »
I haven't been to any of these, but it warms my heart that the gaping hellmouths known as Eugene OR and Pullman WA were omitted
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« Reply #10 on: June 16, 2017, 01:50:28 AM »
What about Eugene?
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« Reply #11 on: June 16, 2017, 03:00:21 AM »
If you're going to include Columbus, you may as well include Pittsburgh for Pitt, CMU, Duquense, plus a few small colleges.
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« Reply #12 on: June 16, 2017, 06:32:45 AM »
The problem with the list from my perspective as an academic, is that it mixes university towns dominated by the campus (eg Champaign) with large cities that also host a university (eg Columbus). The cities in the second category aren't really university cities since there is so much more to them, but they have neighborhoods associated with their university. Minneapolis isn't on the list, but is similar to Columbus in that it is a large city that also has a neighborhood dominated by a large university.
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« Reply #13 on: June 16, 2017, 09:03:34 AM »
I'm not sure I could really sell Champaign-Urbana to every single person I meet, but it was the absolutely perfect college town for me. Other good towns I like are Ann Arbor, Madison, and Austin.
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« Reply #14 on: June 16, 2017, 09:28:32 AM »
Quote from: Santander on June 15, 2017, 09:58:54 PM
I'm sorry, but any college town poll that does not include Tuscaloosa is not worth voting in.


Amen! To include Auburn is sinful. Ann Arbor, Ithaca for me. In fact, I basically agree with OP except it is hard to have Boulder that high because the racist behavior of the late 80s cannot be forgiven. Ever. Never ever.

Quote from: JA on June 15, 2017, 10:51:28 PM
If this was a complete list there'd probably be over 75 or 100 places on it Tongue

I think closer to the 1500-2000 range Wink
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« Reply #15 on: June 16, 2017, 12:12:40 PM »
Quote from: KingSweden on June 15, 2017, 11:39:55 PM
I haven't been to any of these, but it warms my heart that the gaping hellmouths known as Eugene OR and Pullman WA were omitted

C'mon, Pullman isn't that bad.
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« Reply #16 on: June 16, 2017, 01:05:22 PM »
Quote from: Sprouts Farmers Market ✘ on June 16, 2017, 09:28:32 AM
Quote from: JA on June 15, 2017, 10:51:28 PM
If this was a complete list there'd probably be over 75 or 100 places on it Tongue

I think closer to the 1500-2000 range Wink

I'd go with a list of those places with a school with at least 10K students, and a population no more than 10 times the student population. That should keep the number reasonable. Smiley
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« Reply #17 on: June 16, 2017, 01:26:06 PM »
« Edited: June 16, 2017, 03:19:00 PM by Sprouts Farmers Market ✘ »
Sounds like you gave me a weekend project Tongue

(though I may tweak it slightly - Princeton immediately comes to mind as a college town that is not quite that high)
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« Reply #18 on: June 16, 2017, 02:17:19 PM »
Madison.
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« Reply #19 on: June 16, 2017, 04:01:14 PM »
Quote from: Santander on June 15, 2017, 09:58:54 PM
I'm sorry, but any college town poll that does not include Tuscaloosa Amherst is not worth voting in.
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« Reply #20 on: June 16, 2017, 04:27:23 PM »
Champaign and Iowa City are both super awesome, while being pretty damn different for how similar they seem on paper (smallish Midwestern towns dominated by the university).
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« Reply #21 on: June 16, 2017, 05:10:47 PM »
Iowa City, my birthplace. 
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« Reply #22 on: June 16, 2017, 09:51:26 PM »
Oxford,MS is a beautiful town rich in history. Gainesville is a dump.
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« Reply #23 on: June 17, 2017, 03:09:00 PM »
Berekely, CA and Champaign, IL my two hometowns.
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« Reply #24 on: June 17, 2017, 03:26:33 PM »
Williamsburg, Virginia
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