I was there for the first dance on Baylor’s campus.

It was after a TCU football game and you could easily tell what the kids were in town from Fort Worth.

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JoyfulCor313@reddit

Hey, me too. I don’t remember the TCU game, but I did get my picture taken with the president of the university (this isn’t a big deal, this is to show how dorky Baylor is).

Mostly I remember the group of LGBTQ students hanging out with the sociology professor dreaming how if they could ever allow dancing on campus, one day they’ll come around to equity for us, too.

And then they started a seminary almost as conservative as Southwestern.

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username-generica@reddit

Why would an out LGBTQ student choose to go to Baylor?

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JoyfulCor313@reddit

In the early-mid 90s a lot of folks didnt figure stuff out until they were in college.

I like the smell of weed. I love California for the most part. NYC is one of my favorite cities.

I'm the wrong person to ask. I like Austin... So that's something.

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Wizzmer@reddit

The smell of weed and cigarettes are great for people who enjoy breathing in smoke. I live in Illinois now and it smells like weed. But the entire state seems to be methicans.

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NemeanMiniLion@reddit

I don't like cig smell. I do like pipe tobacco smell but I'm pretty sure most people do.

How do you like Illinois other than smells? I'm west of you by 3-5 hours depending on where you are so we're in similar areas.

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It's not my cup of tea, but much of that is due to how remote we are. Walmart grocery store is like 20 minutes away and Home Depot is twice that. Then factor in how pricey gas is here. Then the cost of utilities and property taxes is astonomical. The pros when you live remotely, your home costs very little. And being retired, Illinois doesn't tax my pension or my 401K.

AdInevitable2695@reddit

Storrs, CT. Where University of Connecticut is.

It's the middle of nowhere. Sure, there's a couple bars, but they're drab and boring. No nightclubs. But if bars aren't your type of thing, there's always the museum of puppetry. Lmao.

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StutzBob@reddit

As a person on the opposite side of the country, I struggle to believe that Connecticut the state is big enough to even contain a "middle of nowhere"

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iwantalongnap@reddit

Yes it's very funny to have lived in other places and now be here in CT and see this. Stores is 30 minutes from Hartford, an hour from New Haven, 1.5-2 hours from Boston and 3-4 from NYC. Rural CT? Absolutely. But it takes the same time to drive to New Haven than it does to drive across Houston.

CreativeGPX@reddit

Storrs is in the middle of nowhere in the sense that it's about 30 minutes from a place that has more than gas stations, restaurants and liquor stores. I'd say about Manchester is the next step up in civilization.

However, I disagree a bit about the characterization of Storrs itself. In the past 10 or so years, they built a pretty enormous downtown next to Storrs. It's not NYC, but it's a lot of stuff. There's also skydiving, a drive in movie, horse and hiking trails, etc. There are far worse college towns.

In CT overall, you can be in a place where it takes like 30 minutes to get to anything. Not much more than that.

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AZJHawk@reddit

Yeah. Connecticut is significantly smaller than the county I live in. It has about 60% of the land area of Maricopa County.

Even the “remote” parts of Maricopa County (Gila Bend or Wickenburg) are only an hour or so away from Phoenix. Middle of nowhere to me is Holbrook or Parker or Ajo, where it’s an hour just to get to the next town.

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AdInevitable2695@reddit

It's certainly not "middle of nowhere" in the sense of like, the Dakotas. I'm from MN originally, I've seen places like that.

Really it's just CT's poor highway system that makes it far away (45+ minutes) from everything. Other than I-95 on the coastline, there's no highway that goes directly east/west in the north east portion of the state. Locals call it "the quiet corner". It's all residential and farmland. Lots and lots of deciduous forest. Storrs is in the middle of that.

I'm in Massachusetts (flair) but I grew up in Utah and this made me laugh

It's the middle of nowhere. Almost no population that doesn't go to the university, except for a few farmers. Sure, there's a couple bars, but they're drab and boring.

You're right. There's actually a lot of cool museums in CT, and that's one of them.

There's a cartoon museum in Cheshire. It's quite literally a barn in the owner's backyard. Lots of cool stuff.

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KevrobLurker@reddit

Before CT adopted an income tax, cartoonists flocked to the Nutmeg State. So many publishers were a train ride away on Manhattan Island, or at least kept an office there. A few had HQs in CT. Charlton was in Derby and Fawcett in Stamford.

See

https://westportlibrary.org/cartoon-county-the-golden-age-of-cartooning-in-connecticut/

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worrymon@reddit

An old friend of mine is trying to go to them all.

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TesticleMeElmo@reddit

Hit up the PEZ museum in Orange

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TorchedUserID@reddit

Storrs is a veritable cornucopia of entertainment nowadays compared to what it was like in 1990 when your late night food options were a couple pizza places, a bar, and a Wawa. I drove through last year and actually got a bit angry that it's so much nicer now than it was.

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SenseNo635@reddit

UConn alum here.

Relevant_Airline7076@reddit

I’d argue that part of the colloquial definition of college town is the existence of social activities, particularly those catered to college aged people, and without those, a town isn’t a college town, but rather, a town with a college.

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Hij802@reddit

Yup, here in NJ the two easiest “towns with a college” is Monmouth University and Stockton University. Monmouth is literally located in a gated campus surrounded by a single family neighborhood in every side. There is nothing else there. Stockton is literally surrounded by a forest. I don’t know a single person who went there who actually liked it. The majority of the campus is a parking lot.

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fidgety_sloth@reddit

My daughter looked at Monmouth. Biggest thing going for it was its proximity to the beach, which is kind of a non thing for the majority of the school year. We looked at Rowan too, which also seems to be surrounded by residential areas. I can’t imagine going to either of those schools without a car.

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Hij802@reddit

Rowan at least has a relatively new area with lots of college-oriented businesses that you typically find in college towns. Rowan isn’t the best but certainly is better than Monmouth.

The best campuses in terms of surrounding amenities is Rutgers-New Brunswick (flagship campus) which is basically a college city, Rutgers-Newark (well connected area due to proximity to Newark Penn Station), and Stevens in Hoboken which sits right on the waterfront directly across from Manhattan.

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pinniped90@reddit

This is my thought.

I can think of a lot of towns that have a small college but aren't really college towns. The student vibe is centered around one dorm and maybe two or three fraternity houses. No real "campustown" area.

If the question is which P5 or similar major university is in what should be a traditional college town, but doesn't have much going on, that honor has to go to Starkville, MS.

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Odd_Dragonfruit_2662@reddit

That is an interesting part of the country. I was in Columbus, MS nearby and while they didn’t have a Starbucks, I did count 14 unique fried chicken restaurants.

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pinniped90@reddit

Did they have local coffeeshops?

If so, good for them for not having Starbucks.

And I bet most of those chicken places were really good!

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Odd_Dragonfruit_2662@reddit

They did have one coffee shop downtown. As for the chicken, there were a couple good ones but a lot of KfC and similar

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pinniped90@reddit

There's a small college in Southeast Kansas, Pittsburg State, that has a couple of amazing fried chicken joints just outside of town - real country places.

That's part of it but not the whole thing. Because Eastern Michigan University has 12,000 students to Ypsilanti's 20,000 total residents—that's 60%!—but Ypsi doesn't feel like a college town.

There are obviously reasons for this, having to do with student demographics, housing patterns, etc. but it's worth considering in terms of what makes a college town. IMO is not just the size of the college relative to the town, but it's also about the indirect impact in the form of businesses around the school and throughout the community catering to student needs/wants versus townie needs/wants.

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JoulesMoose@reddit

Idk I went to a college that I’d say was in a college town but it didn’t exactly have a huge night life. It had 2 bars 1 was more of a pub style with booths and a pool table 1 was for dancing. There were 2 colleges and they made up the whole town, at least one member of every family who lived there worked or went to school at the colleges. It didn’t have an ice cream place, or a movie theater and you had to go two towns over to get to a grocery store.

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Evening-Opposite7587@reddit

There are a lot of colleges where the campus is rural and completely self contained. No “town” to speak of, except for whatever municipal government has authority over that land, if any.

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LoisLaneEl@reddit

Vandy students trying to tell me Nashville is a college town because of them. Bro, we are a city that also has Belmont, Lipscomb, Trevecca, and a few other colleges. Your college happens to be here

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zgillet@reddit

I went to Southern Illinois U Edwardsville, and that was a rich town. The school was mostly medical students and engineers, and the parties were pretty tame outside of the few frat houses.

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TehBoulder@reddit

State College has mini golf, laser tag, paintball, hiking and mountain biking trails in every direction, two rock climbing gyms, mma and CrossFit gyms, a half dozen golf courses, a ski mountain 15 minutes away, etc. none of those spots are world class, but they’re there. It punched above its weight/size for amenities 20 years go, and has gotten a bit better since.

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RoryDragonsbane@reddit

Thanks. I still visit occassionally, so that might be fun to do with my kid :)

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Regular_Employee_360@reddit

That just sounds like a city, not a college town. Having those things on demand doesn’t fit the demographic of broke college kids.

I think college towns have a lot of planned campus events, bars, and social activities organized by other students, like dj sets at someone’s house, and self organized get-togethers. Not a bunch of business providing a variety of activities. College towns revolve around the college and student social life, if they had a bunch of activities not related to campus, the town wouldn’t revolve around the college and the students. It would just be a town.

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Zaidswith@reddit

Sounds like you didn't like college town activities. Not that there aren't college activities.

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RoryDragonsbane@reddit

Sure, if your definition of "college town activities" is drinking. But nearly every town has bars, so what's the difference?

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Zaidswith@reddit

The clientele in those cities' bars is typically older and more sad. Would the bars you mentioned exist without the college? Would anything else?

Lack of activities, I would disagree.

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dormantboner@reddit

This is the correct answer.

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EclecticEuTECHtic@reddit

There's excellent hiking and good ice cream.

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MyUsername2459@reddit

That was my first thought as well.

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Nullarni@reddit

It’s gotta be Rexburg, Idaho, where BYU Idaho is located.

Nah.

Buddy, "you even seen the cisco whale?" Me, "nope. Never seen it" Buddy, "im sur3 its nearby. Let me go under and see."

CROBBY2@reddit

I know most people are thinking of the big ones, but there are tons of small college towns. Menomonee, WI has UW-Stout and thats about it. I once visit Dordt University in Sioux Center, IA and it was literally a college, farm lands, and a Walmart.

Note: Both of these towns get bonus points though because they do have Culver's.

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lemonprincess23@reddit

Culver’s is amazing tbf

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silvermoonhowler@reddit

Yeah, speaking as someone who lives in MN, so not too far from Stout, from what I've heard there is next to nothing to do there and I've also heard the same about River Falls

Came here to say this, though I think it's better post-Buttigieg. And there are actually some beautiful areas very near campus that I've only discovered on my trips back post graduation.

I'm saving up all the barks for the game against Ole Miss this weekend.

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went for the georgia game last weekend and I thought skybar was fye

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ArsenalinAlabama3428@reddit

I grew up there and kind of agree. It’s got an ok arts scene and while the game day experience is great, there’s not much more going on in town.

The town and campus itself are pretty but I guess the main thing Auburn has going for it is how easy it is to take weekend/day trips from there. Nice promixity to other SEC campuses, comparatively. Very close to Atlanta, 3 1/2 hours from the beach. Can get to Lake Martin in 30 min or the Blue Ridge Mountains in 3 hours.

I’ll take that over the more isolated college towns. It was nice to have options on the weekends that weren’t just drinking at the frat house

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Candyapplecasino@reddit

As a Troy grad, I used to visit my friend in Auburn to have things to do. Outside of the university, our cultural mecca was Wal-Mart. I remember being in awe of the fancy grocery stores and the festive little downtown street in Auburn.

BigPapaJava@reddit

There are plenty of small, private colleges around the country in places that have nothing to do around them.

The universities and towns are both too small to attract anything worth doing.

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Embarrassed_Fig1801@reddit

Davis California

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TipsyBaker_@reddit

Potsdam, NY. Unless you're super in to the outdoors there's not much going on there. In the summer the population feels like it cuts in half and the winters just hurt

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nkdeck07@reddit

Lol yeah drive down the road to Canton then tell me Potsdam is dead. Potsdam at least had cute little shops and a few restaurants and SUNY Potsdam and Clarkson were big enough to support something. SUNY Canton and St Lawrence were absolutely tiny.

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Eudaimonics@reddit

Potsdam is actually one of my favorite small college towns. Really nice walkable Maine street area with lots of local restaurants and shops.

Murray, Kentucky. A Rural, Western Kentucky, dry county with nothing to do in the small town the college is located in.

Starkvegas

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ArchiveOfNothing@reddit

moscow, idaho with pullman, wa as runner up

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Dodson-504@reddit

Alamosa, CO

Grambling, LA

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Olderbutnotdead619@reddit

Pella, Rock Island

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ginger_princess2009@reddit

Murfreesboro, TN. You have to drive 45 minutes to Nashville to find anything to do

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vbsteez@reddit

Poughkeepsie NY has Marist and Vassar, and students from neither campus go into poughkeepsie.

Its a dead industrial city.

The Hudson valley, at large, is beautiful and great, but not poughkeepsie.

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West Lafayette

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AcidReign25@reddit

lol. Was waiting for that. Purdue grad. Loved going there. But you had to make or find your own fun.

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DDguyfromDC@reddit

Indiana in general has great universities and true college towns of so so places

Bloomington

West Lafayette

South Bend

Muncie

Terra Haute

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KevrobLurker@reddit

Some family members went to St Joe's of Collegeville/Rensallear, IN. In the 70s the big excitement was,eating at the new Pizza Hut.

The school shut down, but has reopened as a non-degree-granting institution. Certification programs & courses with credits issued by other schools are held. Trying to be a part of Marian in Indy didn't work.

West Lafayette looked Paris in comparison.

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kashy87@reddit

Wooster, Ohio.

Hosts both the College of Wooster, and The Ohio State University Agricultural Technical Institute.

Two colleges and not fuck all to do.

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Electronic_Panic8510@reddit

Orono Maine

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DDguyfromDC@reddit

Whittier College

But conducive to poets

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KevrobLurker@reddit

Nixon's alma mater, originally a Quaker (Friends) school. Tricky Dick got his law degree at Duke.

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Was wondering if anyone was going to say Lewiston! I think there is maybe one bar…

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Humble-End-2535@reddit

I attended Clemson in the '80s and there was absolutely nothing to do there.

I see the point of the question as to "how do you define a college town." To me, Chapel Hill, Athens, and Charlottesville are all college towns. But they have a lot more going on.

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No_Control9441@reddit

Isn’t Clemson supposed to have some of the biggest brain drain amongst graduates in the country that don’t stay in the area after college or something like that?

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Humble-End-2535@reddit

There's no reason to stay in Clemson. I can only speak for when I graduated, but a lot of people took jobs in Atlanta and Greenville. A lot of management majors would pick up jobs in mills and other manufacturing in the region. But there aren't really jobs in Clemson.

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No_Control9441@reddit

Yeah I read it’s in the part of South Carolina with the least amount of jobs for college graduates at one time and a divide between the locals and the students. I don’t go there so I don’t know just what I’ve read.

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Humble-End-2535@reddit

I never sensed a divide between the locals and the students, when I was there. The local businesses made their money off the university.

But there just weren't jobs there for the graduates.

Their d3 basketball team used to be a show (1990-2005 era). A quick wiki search and it appears the current coach is the son of the coach who started their run and gun style. It’s worth watching if you ever get a chance.

I knew someone was going to put this here. I am Austin native (I don’t even really like Austin) but it’s definitely a college town/city. There are over 900 bars and nightclubs in Austin. Over 200 plus music venues. A local and corporate coffee shop every couple hundred feet on a commercial road, Pilates, gyms and dance studios everywhere, trials and parks etc…

If the argument is it’s changing to more of a young tech bro city. Yes I agree but a lot of those techies and real estate bros are taking business courses and tech courses through UT.

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Hope it works out.

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On_my_last_spoon@reddit

Technically, you could say my town is a “college town” as it does have a large university in it. But the town itself is not centered around the university. The university is its own entity, separate from the town itself.

GreenBeanTM@reddit

Probably the vast majority have the same amount of nothing

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historychikk@reddit

Adrian, Michigan.

Although to be fair, it's a Christian college.

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MechanicalGodzilla@reddit

George Mason University maybe? They got Johnny Depp and Amber Heard a few years ago, but otherwise it's a large college in the middle of suburban Virginia.

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DJPaige01@reddit

With over 4,000 colleges in the country, it would be difficult to answer.

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No-Conversation1940@reddit

Rolla, MO

College town for an engineering and hard sciences university (Missouri S&T) near an Army base (Fort Leonard Wood), leading to what is probably one of the most skewed local gender ratios in the nation. Rolla is deep in the Ozarks without being close to any notable geographic features, the townies resent the students, and the students spend most of their time studying or drinking cheap hooch anyway.

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t-poke@reddit

the townies resent the students

As a former UMR (that's what my diploma says and I'm sticking to it) student, the feeling was mutual.

We needed them and they needed us to keep both the college and town alive, but my god, I've never seen so much hatred, racism and ignorance concentrated in one place. And this was in the mid 2000s, I can only imagine it's gotten a lot worse.

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girkabob@reddit

I graduated from there 19 years ago, and I'm jealous of how much more stuff the town has now. There was truly nothing but the Grotto, Alex's Pizza, and the townie bar back then.

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t-poke@reddit

I graduated from there in 2008 and my brother in 2013. Seems like there was a pretty big boom in stuff being built while he was there because there wasn't a whole lot when I left.

I don't really find myself in Rolla anymore, especially after my brother graduated. I did a road trip to the Grand Canyon and Vegas a few years ago and stopped in Rolla to use the Supercharger. I drove through the town just for a trip down memory lane, and of course had to get lunch at Alex's. That's still some of the best god damn pizza I've had. It's a unique style that I can't find anywhere in STL.

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Grand Forks, ND.

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Zealousideal-Lie7255@reddit

I hoped it’s gotten better but Purdue and West Lafayette and Lafayette were incredibly boring. This was a while ago.

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Randy_Magnum29@reddit

I went there for my freshman year in 2004-05 and hated it. There was NOTHING to do.

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heyheymollykay@reddit

State College.

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Tbagzyamum69420xX@reddit

Maybe not so much anymore but Cullowhee, North Carolina. Western Carolina University. I mean the town itself is pretty much just the college, any "college town" activities took place in neighboring Sylva so that kinda gets adopted into the WCU culture. But even then there were only a handful of bars and that was about it. Otherwise you'd be driving 30 minutes to and hour to either go to the casino on the reservation or Asheville, NC which obviously is its own social/night life culture. On a more regular basis people would just go to house/apartment parties.

This is all just talking about stereotypical "college town" shenanigans. The area still has a lot to offer in the way of nature and local community.

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JoeFortitude@reddit

Big rapids, Mi.

Ferris State University.

It is a mid-Michigan Podunk town like the rest mid-Michigan Podunk towns and it has jack shit in it.

I agree with the guy who said

If the question is which P5 or similar major university is in what should be a traditional college town, but doesn't have much going on, that honor has to go to Starkville, MS.

I’m going to nominate Laramie Wyoming where the University of Wyoming is. It’s a good school, but the town itself is quite small and boring compared to Casper WY to the north and Ft. Collins CO to the south.

My friend’s kid attends the university there and he loves it, but also admits there isn’t much to do in the town.

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wormbreath@reddit

No way! I loved my time in Laramie. the majority of kids who go to uw come from smaller Wyoming towns so Laramie has way more to offer than what they are used too. Laramie is our 3rd largest city, gateway to the snowies, you can go to class and go skiing in the same day. Snowshoeing, hunting, hiking, fishing…. It’s called laradise for a reason. If people find Laramie boring they are just boring people.

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WalterSobchakinTexas@reddit

Stillwater OK. Nothing besides Eskimo Joe's

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OkElephant1931@reddit

The whole point of a college town is that there are a lot of things to do AT THE COLLEGE. Like, sporting events and drama shows and orchestra concerts and the list goes on.

Haterade_ONON@reddit

huhwhat90@reddit

Livingston, Alabama. It's literally just a blip on the map aside from the University of West Alabama. It has a population under 5,000 people and the downtown consists of just a few square blocks.

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nettenette1@reddit

I have close experience with three places/schools. First, Chapel Hill. It only exists because of the school and since you popped out Aiken, the oldest state university in the nation has has a bit longer to build up its infrastructure. Carrboro only exists as a train supply depot for Chapel Hill.

NYC, specifically NYU. You can’t escape things to do. I have personal experience with Columbia and it probably has more access to outdoorsy activities - horseback in Central Park. Riverside park. The Yankees. Kayaking on the Hudson (don’t judge, I did it often and I’m still here).

mustbethedragon@reddit

It's been a long time since I was there, so maybe it's changed, but Berea, Kentucky, had nothing. It was dry, so no alcohol was available anywhere. Very few students were allowed to live off campus or to have cars. We rarely left campus except to go home (three hours away for me).

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El_Polio_Loco@reddit

Houghton NY.

Home of Houghton University.

One stoplight town that isn’t dominated by schools.

No bars, minimal amenities, small school that isn’t very good.

Terrible place in general.

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dorv@reddit

It’s been a long time since I was in Buies Creek, NC — home of the Campbell University Fighting Camels — but unless it’s changed significantly in 25 years, that would get my vote.

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tn00bz@reddit

Csu Channel Islands. The school is literally a former mental hospital, 15 minutes outside of the city completely surrounded by farmland.

Or CSU Montery Bay. It's not actually in Monterey but a nearby town. The town has a target.... but thats kinda it.

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Mother_Demand1833@reddit

Maybe not the "least" amount of things to do, but I was quite put off by the three years that I spent living in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois.

Maybe I'd have felt differently if I were a student or professor, but I felt a general malaise there that I haven't encountered in other college towns of that size.

There were admittedly some great restaurants, especially if you like traditional Chinese, Korean, Thai, and Vietnamese food. So that was a plus.

What struck me was that the streets and public areas were generally devoid of people, even on beautiful days.

The area around campus was a confusing and uninspiring mix of abandoned retail, seedy pawn shops, liquor stores, and run down gas stations.

I was surprised to find only a few local bookshops, most of which were pretty small.

It was a lot more car-dependent than similar towns that I've visited. Grocery shopping required an 8-minute drive to the nearest strip mall.

Outside the town, there was nothing but corn and wind turbines as far as the eye can see.

I found the campus to be bland, forgettable, and lacking any warmth or character. The students whom I encountered always appeared unhappy.

In contrast, the college town of Lafayette, Indiana just 1.5 hours away felt like a whole other country. Tons of people out and about, food trucks and art festivals, lots of interesting shops, energy and vibrancy.

I'm not sure why this is, but it was pretty striking.

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fowmart@reddit

Within the SEC the answer is Starkville

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Only-Friend-8483@reddit

West Point, NY.

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Roborana@reddit

There are around 4000 colleges/universities in the US. How would anybody go about answering this question?

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Starkville MS.

goldslipper@reddit

Bennington Vermont.

No nightlife, no target. Has a college but isn't even considered a college town.

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I wasn’t aware Emporia had a legit disc golf culture! That’s pretty cool. I’m more into mountain biking, haven’t really gotten into gravel riding yet, and I didn’t bring my bike with me for work anyway. But I might have to check out some of the disc golf options while I’m here.

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Honeybee3674@reddit

The university I went to in the 90s was in a small, religious town, with 1 takeout pizza place l, a McDonald's, and one family restaurant, and one small grocery market, none of which were open on Sunday , let alone anything entertaining. And I didn't have a car the first two years. We had to find ways to entertain ourselves.

I put forth Starkville, Mississippi.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starkville,_Mississippi

Home of Mississippi State University. Outside of the university, it has a population of $21,000.

Another one is Clemson, South Carolina.

All the fun stuff to do is an hour away in Greenville.

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Humble-End-2535@reddit

I commented elsewhere, but as someone who attended Clemson in the '80s, I wondered if there was anything to do there, now. Of course, having grown up in Greenville, there wasn't much that would make it worth the trip, when I was in school.

I think part of the appeal of Clemson to a lot of people (I live in Connecticut now and a fair number of people up here send their kids down to Clemson) is that it is isolated, so they feel like its a safe place to send their kids.

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SpacemanSpears@reddit

Whoa! Hold up, now! Clemson has a defunct gas station where everybody likes to hang out. You can't just ignore that level of cultural contribution!

P.s. Go Cocks!

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Big_Abbreviations_86@reddit

Amherst MA. There is one major state school (UMass) and one major private school (Amherst college), and yet there is barely anything to do bc the town refuses to approve any sort of development.

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Eternalaparasol5@reddit

Hattiesburg, they roll up the sidewalk at 9pm

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anschauung@reddit

Oviedo, FL might make the list, but only on a technicality.

Orlando is right next door and there's loads to do there. So the sparse Oviedo "scene" is just for the students who don't have a car and can't bum a ride.

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nousernamesleft199@reddit

pullman, wa

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Murderer-Kermit@reddit

A true college town generally doesn't have really anything to do outside the college so it probably a big tie between a lot of them.

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Double_Snow_3468@reddit (OP)

That’s not true lmao. A true “college town” is a town that has grown a wide array of activities that are catered for the college. Why would anyone live in a place where the college has everything you would ever do? The town I went to school in had a ton of bars, restaurants, museums and parks

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IanWallDotCom@reddit

All college towns in my brain also cater to... non-college students.

A college without a college town really just has the student activities, games, frat houses etc... Nothing that a non-college student would desire.

Magnolia, Arkansas

finnbee2@reddit

Having things to do is all relative. If you are interested in bars and nightlife then a college without lots of them is boring. Conversely, if you are interested in the out of doors and you are in a larger city full of bars and nightlife, that can also be boring.

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Double_Snow_3468@reddit (OP)

Fair, however there are plenty of college towns that truly don’t have anything lol. No parks, no museums, no interesting restaurants. Of course, no where is devoid of everything, but there are definitely some that are lacking

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i_read_sometimes_@reddit

Lynchburg, VA, if you're a Liberty student.

Sum Ross University in Alpine, Texas.

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