You know a guy named Doobay who went through there about that time?
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You know a guy named Doobay who went through there about that time?
Wouldn’t it be great if we could get UNC on the schedule, or any ACC school for that matter? Preferably UNC.
Step below Stanford in academics, definitely. Palo Alto vs chapel hill as far as college towns? No comparison. PA is horrible.
Lol I’d rather live/study in the Bay Area over any city the Southeastern US.
Chief - don’t know him. He would have been a first year my last or my first year out. Western - I have only been to PA a few times. Maybe just saw the “good side” of town because their campus and the surrounding area is pretty nice. Trust me, love CH. As I said, a warmer Ann Arbor or Iowa City. Great college town.
Anywhere in California is the last place on Earth I'd want to be.
I'd take Iowa city over any "college town" in California. I cant even think of a true classic college town in CA.
Western - I agree except tough to compare. They definitely don’t have have the “feel” of other college towns that Iowa City, Ann Arbor, CH, Madison, Boulder, etc. have. But they focus on a different group of students. Scenery wise Pepperdine is the best I have ever seen. Stanford (I know you don’t like PA) is an awesome campus. USC and UCLA are great if you like that. Go north. By conference I will just say in no order:
Big 10: Iowa City, Ann Arbor, Madison, Bloomington and Evanston.
Big 12: Austin, Lawrence
Sec: Oxford; Vandy (not a lot of experience at the rest)
PAC: PA, LA schools, ASU (co-eds), Washington
ACC: NC, Duke.
Awe from history: West Point; Harvard; Yale and Princeton. I guess ND but don’t like them but near campus.
From East Coast: Ithaca, Providence; NYU.
This is off the top of my head so sure I missed a bunch. And these are only ones I have seen I have been to many more but my thoughts.
Big 10: Iowa City, Ann Arbor, Madison, Bloomington and Evanston.
Big 12: Austin, Lawrence
Sec: Oxford; Vandy (not a lot of experience at the rest)
PAC: PA, LA schools, ASU (co-eds), Washington
ACC: NC, Duke.
Awe from history: West Point; Harvard; Yale and Princeton. I guess ND but don’t like them but near campus.
From East Coast: Ithaca, Providence; NYU.
This is off the top of my head so sure I missed a bunch. And these are only ones I have seen I have been to many more but my thoughts.
Funny JED. Fine campus but not close to what I listed. Even Crabby might agree!
Yeah. The state with the fifth largest economy IN THE WORLD is a bad place to be.
Trust me, we count on closed minded folks staying away. Lol
Plenty of reasons to not have a great desire to live in California that have nothing to do with closed mindedness.
My great-grandfather was the student body president of Yale law school after graduating from Iowa at twenty as an architect. He became the best defense attorney in Iowa and narrowly. lost the governor’s race twice in his late thirties as an Irish catholic democrat before he died in his forties. Never stood a chance with being, Irish, catholic and a dem back then. I just wanted to play the lawyer game too. The University of Iowa library has all his writings and speeches to this day. He had two banker congressmen brothers too. He’d smoke anyone in debates. they’re still in The NY Times?. The pride of Shell Rock, Iowa and his dad came from Ireland and settled Shell Rock because he didn’t like Waverly politics and made it an industrial hub of northeast Iowa as a carriage builder, merchant and many other endeavors. Independence, Iowa was the only industrial competition even close strangely enough. Now you know where I get my intelligence. CSB.
Nice list. From the ones I've been to (about half your list), I'd have to agree, except that I'd remove Yale and Evanston, but add Brown and Eugene.
Yeah if you’re a billionaire or uber liberal. Have you been to Charlotte, Nashville, Raleigh, ATL, Birmingham, Greenville (most underrated city in the US), or Tampa? You sound uneducated on how great the quality of life is in those cities
They have a ton of people, I guess that's a good thing.... some of them are even U.S. Citizens. The majority seem to be bat shit crazy, so good place to store them, on a coast.
When that state falls into the ocean like most of the rest of the country hopes it will, I'll still be alive and well in the Midwest and happily so.
This. What a great place to go to school this would be. Pepperdine is in an incredible location as well.
Liking the Bay Area is not uneducated, but maybe out of the financial range of many people. Unfortunately, not so much Iowa-level wrestling in the Bay Area or those Southern cities.
I said you were uneducated on the quality of life in these southern cities.
Love Cali. Been there many times — north, south and in between. Big Sur is wonderful, as are Coronado, Carmel, and Point Reyes. The forest fires have changed things, though.
Housing prices?
Cost of living?
Forest fires?
The whole LA entertainment scene (ie everyone pursuing the celebrity, "social media influencer life", lack of humility or genuinity)?
The whole "fly over state" attitude?
State being in massive debt?
Traffic?
Pollution?
Yes, I have. I’ve actually been to all of the cities you mention. (Haven’t really spent time in Raleigh.)
I love LA, but downtown sucks more than any city I’ve ever been to. In NYC they work 18 hour days to live, in LA they look for gimmicks and fast money and they’re lazy as hell. I prefer LA for the lifestyle, but as a city NYC you can’t be beat it. I’ll choose Charleston, South Carolina over them both. Dew point is a bitch though,
I prefer living in rural NoCal or Oregon and visiting the Bay Area when I get the urge.
Nice assessment. I agree it is tough to compare and I think some people conflate college town with the actual campus proper.
Let's take UCSB for example. Santa Barbara/Goleta/Montecito/Carpinteria is one of the nicest areas I've ever visited, but SB is not a college town in the true sense of the word.
Ithaca is a very good example. State College is a good example. Charlottesville used to be a good example. Lexington, VA is a good example.
Pepperdine is amazing, but again, Malibu is not my idea of a college town.
I guess it is difficult to define, but I know one when I see one.
Just looked... the last post referring to the thread topic was post # 56.
The rest sound like a bunch of guys shooting beers at a class reunion.
The rest sound like a bunch of guys shooting beers at a class reunion.
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