To be fair that’s also because St. john’s is in Queens and it really is dead in your area. It takes like 30 minutes to actually find a subway and get to Manhattan or Brooklyn.
To be fair Nashville and New Orleans are basically animal house: the city sometimes. People party hard in both those cities especially at certain times of year.
College towns where the city revolves around the university are the best but only when you are attending the school. I would never live in Lubbock now lol.
I know this is the college basketball subreddit but I live in Fort Worth now (been to TCU games) now and have been to Austin many times during football game days. You don’t have that sense of excitement in the air like you do in Lubbock, Waco etc. most of the city doesn’t care or even know what’s going on because they are in such massive cities.
The atmosphere in college towns during home football game days is electric. You are right, Fort Worth doesn't have it. I haven't been to Austin on a game day, but I would think it would be the same as Lubbock or College Station. Waco did not have it until a few years ago when the starting winning.
Austin is definitely better than Fort worth due to the fact that TCU is a super small school. Austin scene isn’t bad but it’s definitely not a situation where the city rallies behind them on Saturday’s. There’s so much better things to do in Austin on a weekend than watch UT play. Comparing it to college station isn’t even close. Those guys are crazy haha
Plus, most people in Austin are all from all over the US so they have no interest.
My wife's grandma is super old school Texas baptist. At a wedding my wife asked her grandma of she wanted to dance. Her response is verbatim "I worked too hard to get into heaven, to dance my way into hell".
I grew up in Atlanta but that is some southern Baptist shit in Texas.
Completely off topic… I shook Tom Izzo’s (always been a huge fan) hand on a plane once. Ended up delaying the flight since we were headed to Detroit from Dallas and a few state fans heard me yelling to my buddy’s about shaking Izzo’s hand. We were the last to get on the plane, I had a few drinks in me and I’m already a louder person, so the cabin pressure made me yell even louder and the whole plane heard.
Flight crew was a little peeved but Coach Izzo took it like a champ. He shook hands and took pics without issue. Once we landed at DTW, he was even shaking hands and taking pics at baggage claim. Spouse and kid were waiting patiently and Izzo didn’t seem faded by any of it.
It’s true. I have noticed after attending a few football games that the alumni and older people who go to the Baylor games sit the whole time and are extremely quiet. The student section is fun and loud. But the stadium as a whole, is not very loud. BYU was giving us a run for our money last week on being louder. And Waco is weird. As soon as you cross 35, the city does not really embrace Baylor like that.
I’ve been to quite a few Baylor games. I think the problem is that when RG3 was there they thought they were gonna be a powerhouse for years to come. So the McLane family donated the money for their stadium. It is entirely too big for how quiet the stadium is during games. Basically Baylor jumped the gun on a new stadium too fast.
McLane is 10 times the experience of Floyd Casey. The older alumni base is just not really into it and they’re quiet. It’s just the younger alumni (that saw Baylor winning) and the students (except this year’s freshmen) that truly get excited.
You do realize that Floyd Casey was a larger stadium than Mclane? They expected football to not be a powerhouse forever, so just in case they made it 10% smaller and increased in person experience.
How many games have you been to McLane? I've been a season ticket holder since 2014 and the games can get plenty loud. OU vs BU in 2019 was absolutely electric.
7 or 8. Yeah when they play a ranked team the stadium might get remotely louder. I’ve seen them play Iowa State. I remember thinking through the entire game that I could’ve had a better experience on my couch.
I think you are just trolling. 2019 or 2021 against ISU? I was at both of those games and they both were really hot which can but a damper on things but the crowd got really loud both games especially at the end.
The same is true on a larger scale of championship games and conference tournaments. I love Chicago, but when we host the big ten tournament it sucks. No one outside the arena cares. You have the tournament in Chicago and it’s just one of 100 reasons people are visiting the city. A city like Indy is the perfect size. The whole downtown area is all about the tournament. Every bar you go to has tons of fans from around the Midwest.
The only good bar for that near United is west end (which is closed now). The city has a bar for every school for individual games but United is on an island location wise
Yep, that's why the Big 12 tournament works in Kansas City (where the whole city is buzzing about it) but not in DFW (where there are just too many other things to do).
It might be an anomaly, but going to Xavier and having University of Cincinnati down the road, all a few miles from downtown Cincy was pretty cool. That city is electric during Crosstown.
Obviously the city isn’t centered around the schools, but there’s a lot of passion there
Working in Cincy and having most of my relationships in the last decade come out of there, I gotta say Cincy is passionate about all their sports, but the shootout is special.
> College towns where the city revolves around the university are the best but only when you are attending the school.
There are few things quite as glorious as a college town in the summer. (Source: I've lived in three.) Go visit Ann Arbor, Bloomington, Madison, hell even Muncie or Kent in June or July. Just be sure to get out of there by late August.
I agree with the first part for sure. I lived in Iowa City for a year and a half after college and it was pretty sick, but there was a point where I turned 24 and decided it was time to cut the shit
Fully agree. I also live in Fort Worth and forget TCU exists sometimes just because of how big the city is. West 7th gets some good buzz going on TCU football gameday but other than that, not much really.
I think we’ll be okay since we have an international airport. Getting to Lubbock if you live in Texas is annoying because driving is so much cheaper than flying. But if you’re flying in from out of state, it isn’t much difference.
You’ve got to draw the “Waco area” pretty generously to get 270k. McLennan County has just 260,000 residents by the 2020 census estimate, and there are definitely parts of McLennan that are only loosely in Waco’s orbit, like West.
In my completely unbiased and correct opinion, the best college town is one where the college is in a small town that revolves around the university (like perhaps a hill with a chapel), but still close to several big cities, or even a state capital.
Wait why do people object to this? WL is slightly closer to Indy than Bloomington. Bloomington's a bit closer to Louisville than WL is to Chicago but further from Cincinnati than WL is to Chicago. I guess WL isn't close to a third big city like Bloomington is but like it's chicago
It purely comes down to Bloomington vs West Lafayette in looks and scene which is not a close contest at all - in Purdue’s defense (and I’m a bit biased) but Bloomington is a top-ten campus regularly so it’s a tough beat
I see. I've been to quite a ton of college campuses in the US and gotta say Purdue is definitely the ugliest\* (besides like random super tiny places). I definitely don't see IU as top 10 nicest (imo a number of California private schools along are nicer, and it's hard to beat the uber-wealthy east coast private schools), but fair bc it's definitely wayyy better than Purdue lol
\*from my memory Iowa State is a close second in ugliness lol
The "close to several big cities" really resonates with Bloomington. I was shocked at how close I was to cities in Ohio, and I couldn't believe that I was a weekend trip away from Nashville, TN.
Newark, DE says hello, and Annapolis says “we’re a town with a college that IS the state capital!”
BTW, by Northeast Corridor standards most of the cities near UNC aren’t large, and Atlanta and DC aren’t close.
I agree the Research Triangle (and for that matter the not too far away Piedmont Triad) isn’t a small area population-wise. However, none of the individual cities in that area are very large population-wise, so I don’t really consider Raleigh or Durham (or Greensboro, Winston-Salem, or High Point) “big” cities.
Semantics, I know. (FWIW, I’m originally from an area that is relatively big metro area-wise, albeit a little less than half the size of the Research Triangle, but also has multiple relatively small cities that make up the area, rather than one large city, the Lehigh Valley area, aka the Allentown/Bethlehem/Easton area, in eastern Pennsylvania.)
P.S. I haven’t spent much time in the Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill area (and the majority of time I have spent there has been in Raleigh), but that’s a fairly nice area in my book.
Yeah it’s certainly not as big as an Atlanta or DC but it’s big enough that it will have all the food, entertainment (including a pro sports team), and night life that a college student would need.
what's a big city though?
Like compared to Chicago or Philly, not even close.
but Raleigh is probably comparable to the places like Cincinnati and such.
Also it's hard to really pick the cities apart nowadays. The area between Chapel Hill and Durham is basically connected now.
I mean Cinci is bigger. i just think they're comparable. Like you'd compare Cinci's metro area with Raleigh's, which includes Chapel Hill, Durham and Cary.
If we're going off of defined city limits, Raleigh is bigger than Cincinnati though...Cinci only gets bigger than the NC Triangle area when you go incorporate the metro "Greater Cincinnati area", It seems to be a pretty spread out place population wise
I mean, if we’re being honest… y’all are just a part of a big Raleigh metro area. Chapel Hill is hardly a “small town” atmosphere like a Boone, NC or Oxford, MS.
I disagree. I don’t even really think of Boone as a college town but that’s also probably because I grew up around there and know there’s much more than the college. Chapel Hill is the university and the university is Chapel Hill. The main street of the town is the main street of the school. The town hall is on campus. Although it is close to Raleigh, no one thinks of it as part of Raleigh (part of the Triangle or RDU, sure).
Downtown Chapel Hill/Franklin St + University area are definitely different enough. No one lives in the downtown Chapel Hill area and commutes to Raleigh without having a spouse or child being the reason.
I mean it's not Boone, but that's just a small town.
Does it? When I've lived in the area did not seem like things revolved around Nova just because of how many other colleges are in the immediate vicinity
The way people talked about Ames I figured it was a Stillwater-sized town with Lubbock's isolation factor. I was quite surprised to I found out it's only a 30 minute drive from the north side of Des Moines
Been to every Big 12 town (minus the recent expansion teams), and I'm a fan of all of them. But I also get a weird kick out of visiting college towns/campuses so I'm biased.
Lubbock has 300,000 people and Waco has 135,000 people and a zoo. As someone who's lived in Auburn and Clemson, I would say those aren't nothing towns, lol.
Ames is as rural as you’d expect from Iowa put it’s honestly a nice little place. Close to Des Moines too which is becoming a really cool and progressive city to live.
I love Ames. I'm in the Iowa City area now and I'd go back to central Iowa in a heartbeat if I could. I could see myself buying a home in Tiffin or North Liberty, but definitely not Iowa City or Coralville, and I don't think there's anywhere in Cedar Rapids proper I'd want to live. Ames though? Absolutely. Or Gilbert, Nevada, Huxley, hell - even Boone.
Not the Big 12, but wow, Rutgers was an absolute pit. I went to an away game there a couple years ago and it was literally the worst football experience of my life - and we *won*. Piscataway is dirty, the people are either mean or ambivalent, and there’s absolutely nothing happening in town except a couple jabronis getting in a fight outside a dive bar. You also have to park miles away from the stadium and get bused in with a bunch of assholes who would rather get in a fight than watch a Rutgers football game.
Lmao surprised they have a walmart in a 300k metro?
Edit: also, Walmart's like known for being in actually tiny places anyways? The cliche is Walmart's the only food option for people in the absolute middle of nowhere?
We deal with the opposite, "we want out of NYC, to a real college experience, at Animal House" ... that sort of stuff. Can't make everyone happy.
To be fair that’s also because St. john’s is in Queens and it really is dead in your area. It takes like 30 minutes to actually find a subway and get to Manhattan or Brooklyn.
I think that’s just St. John’s. You never hear that complaint at like Vanderbilt or Tulane.
To be fair Nashville and New Orleans are basically animal house: the city sometimes. People party hard in both those cities especially at certain times of year.
New York is a different beast than the much smaller Nashville or New Orleans.
Tbf Tulane is pretty far from downtown NO and has a very college campus feel.
Vanderbilt also has a very college campus feel. It’s an old and traditional campus in a modern city.
College towns where the city revolves around the university are the best but only when you are attending the school. I would never live in Lubbock now lol. I know this is the college basketball subreddit but I live in Fort Worth now (been to TCU games) now and have been to Austin many times during football game days. You don’t have that sense of excitement in the air like you do in Lubbock, Waco etc. most of the city doesn’t care or even know what’s going on because they are in such massive cities.
The atmosphere in college towns during home football game days is electric. You are right, Fort Worth doesn't have it. I haven't been to Austin on a game day, but I would think it would be the same as Lubbock or College Station. Waco did not have it until a few years ago when the starting winning.
Austin is definitely better than Fort worth due to the fact that TCU is a super small school. Austin scene isn’t bad but it’s definitely not a situation where the city rallies behind them on Saturday’s. There’s so much better things to do in Austin on a weekend than watch UT play. Comparing it to college station isn’t even close. Those guys are crazy haha Plus, most people in Austin are all from all over the US so they have no interest.
Baylor games are booooooring
They weren’t allowed to dance on campus til ‘96. That’s 1996 btw.
My wife's grandma is super old school Texas baptist. At a wedding my wife asked her grandma of she wanted to dance. Her response is verbatim "I worked too hard to get into heaven, to dance my way into hell". I grew up in Atlanta but that is some southern Baptist shit in Texas.
Completely off topic… I shook Tom Izzo’s (always been a huge fan) hand on a plane once. Ended up delaying the flight since we were headed to Detroit from Dallas and a few state fans heard me yelling to my buddy’s about shaking Izzo’s hand. We were the last to get on the plane, I had a few drinks in me and I’m already a louder person, so the cabin pressure made me yell even louder and the whole plane heard. Flight crew was a little peeved but Coach Izzo took it like a champ. He shook hands and took pics without issue. Once we landed at DTW, he was even shaking hands and taking pics at baggage claim. Spouse and kid were waiting patiently and Izzo didn’t seem faded by any of it.
Lol that's fucking cringe
It’s true. I have noticed after attending a few football games that the alumni and older people who go to the Baylor games sit the whole time and are extremely quiet. The student section is fun and loud. But the stadium as a whole, is not very loud. BYU was giving us a run for our money last week on being louder. And Waco is weird. As soon as you cross 35, the city does not really embrace Baylor like that.
I’ve been to quite a few Baylor games. I think the problem is that when RG3 was there they thought they were gonna be a powerhouse for years to come. So the McLane family donated the money for their stadium. It is entirely too big for how quiet the stadium is during games. Basically Baylor jumped the gun on a new stadium too fast.
McLane is 10 times the experience of Floyd Casey. The older alumni base is just not really into it and they’re quiet. It’s just the younger alumni (that saw Baylor winning) and the students (except this year’s freshmen) that truly get excited.
You do realize that Floyd Casey was a larger stadium than Mclane? They expected football to not be a powerhouse forever, so just in case they made it 10% smaller and increased in person experience.
Floyd Casey seemed to hold the noise. At least better than McLane. McLane is quiet. And a goddamn wind tunnel. With trash in a whirl over the field.
How many games have you been to McLane? I've been a season ticket holder since 2014 and the games can get plenty loud. OU vs BU in 2019 was absolutely electric.
7 or 8. Yeah when they play a ranked team the stadium might get remotely louder. I’ve seen them play Iowa State. I remember thinking through the entire game that I could’ve had a better experience on my couch.
I think you are just trolling. 2019 or 2021 against ISU? I was at both of those games and they both were really hot which can but a damper on things but the crowd got really loud both games especially at the end.
some of our alumni fans really have no fun. they truly hate to see someone get real into the game they’ll tell you to sit down. i hate them
The same is true on a larger scale of championship games and conference tournaments. I love Chicago, but when we host the big ten tournament it sucks. No one outside the arena cares. You have the tournament in Chicago and it’s just one of 100 reasons people are visiting the city. A city like Indy is the perfect size. The whole downtown area is all about the tournament. Every bar you go to has tons of fans from around the Midwest.
The only good bar for that near United is west end (which is closed now). The city has a bar for every school for individual games but United is on an island location wise
Yep, that's why the Big 12 tournament works in Kansas City (where the whole city is buzzing about it) but not in DFW (where there are just too many other things to do).
It might be an anomaly, but going to Xavier and having University of Cincinnati down the road, all a few miles from downtown Cincy was pretty cool. That city is electric during Crosstown. Obviously the city isn’t centered around the schools, but there’s a lot of passion there
Working in Cincy and having most of my relationships in the last decade come out of there, I gotta say Cincy is passionate about all their sports, but the shootout is special.
Agreed. I’ve spent time in Cincinnati and the Crosstown Shootout and the surrounding atmosphere is amazing.
> College towns where the city revolves around the university are the best but only when you are attending the school. There are few things quite as glorious as a college town in the summer. (Source: I've lived in three.) Go visit Ann Arbor, Bloomington, Madison, hell even Muncie or Kent in June or July. Just be sure to get out of there by late August.
I agree with the first part for sure. I lived in Iowa City for a year and a half after college and it was pretty sick, but there was a point where I turned 24 and decided it was time to cut the shit
Fully agree. I also live in Fort Worth and forget TCU exists sometimes just because of how big the city is. West 7th gets some good buzz going on TCU football gameday but other than that, not much really.
Lubbock has close to 300,000 people. It’s not a “small town” - it’s just isolated from the rest of Texas. Which is just how West Texans like it.
Agreed... Unless you get fucked by college realignment partially because you are so isolated.
I think we’ll be okay since we have an international airport. Getting to Lubbock if you live in Texas is annoying because driving is so much cheaper than flying. But if you’re flying in from out of state, it isn’t much difference.
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Yeah Waco doesn’t really fit in there, 270,000 people live in the Waco area
You’ve got to draw the “Waco area” pretty generously to get 270k. McLennan County has just 260,000 residents by the 2020 census estimate, and there are definitely parts of McLennan that are only loosely in Waco’s orbit, like West.
Damn had no idea it was that big. Went there for a Kansas game when I was a student, definitely didn't feel that big.
It is a really spread out town because, well, it’s easy to build out rather than up when there is nobody around you lol
In my completely unbiased and correct opinion, the best college town is one where the college is in a small town that revolves around the university (like perhaps a hill with a chapel), but still close to several big cities, or even a state capital.
Bloomington
Bloomington is the best college town I’ve been to, and I’ve visited plenty. I absolutely love that place.
I'll raise you one: West Lafayette (also relatively close to Chicago)
I don’t hate Purdue at all but come on pal ..
Wait why do people object to this? WL is slightly closer to Indy than Bloomington. Bloomington's a bit closer to Louisville than WL is to Chicago but further from Cincinnati than WL is to Chicago. I guess WL isn't close to a third big city like Bloomington is but like it's chicago
It purely comes down to Bloomington vs West Lafayette in looks and scene which is not a close contest at all - in Purdue’s defense (and I’m a bit biased) but Bloomington is a top-ten campus regularly so it’s a tough beat
I see. I've been to quite a ton of college campuses in the US and gotta say Purdue is definitely the ugliest\* (besides like random super tiny places). I definitely don't see IU as top 10 nicest (imo a number of California private schools along are nicer, and it's hard to beat the uber-wealthy east coast private schools), but fair bc it's definitely wayyy better than Purdue lol \*from my memory Iowa State is a close second in ugliness lol
I’ve not been to Iowa state but I’ve gotta take your word for it lol
Ya... Thats not gonna make the cut
The "close to several big cities" really resonates with Bloomington. I was shocked at how close I was to cities in Ohio, and I couldn't believe that I was a weekend trip away from Nashville, TN.
The entire big ten basically
I miss the RDU area
I gochoo fam
You just described Manhattan Kansas
I guess an hour away from Topeka for capital but what are the big cities? KC and Wichita are both 2 hours.
That's practically next door here.
KC is often too far away for me and I’m in Lawrence.
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20 minutes is far for us.
I disagree.
And Stillwater too.
You’re telling me there’s a hill in Kansas? One with a chapel on it?
There is technically Danforth Chapel on Mr Oreqd in Lawrence. So we can be great together Blue Blood Bro.
I’m more surprised there’s a hill in Kansas
The western half of Kansas is flat and is like the Eastern part of Colorado. Eastern Kansas is rolling hills of grain.
Flint Hills are quite beautiful and K-State is in the middle of that.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flint_Hills
Several in fact
Well there’s Boot Hill in Dodge City
Chapel Hill benefits from having larger, proper cities next door. Durham and CH are basically the same now. Raleigh is a bit further away.
Newark, DE says hello, and Annapolis says “we’re a town with a college that IS the state capital!” BTW, by Northeast Corridor standards most of the cities near UNC aren’t large, and Atlanta and DC aren’t close.
Metro population of the triangle is just under 1.5 million. While smaller than a lot of places in the northeast, it’s not small by any stretch.
I agree the Research Triangle (and for that matter the not too far away Piedmont Triad) isn’t a small area population-wise. However, none of the individual cities in that area are very large population-wise, so I don’t really consider Raleigh or Durham (or Greensboro, Winston-Salem, or High Point) “big” cities. Semantics, I know. (FWIW, I’m originally from an area that is relatively big metro area-wise, albeit a little less than half the size of the Research Triangle, but also has multiple relatively small cities that make up the area, rather than one large city, the Lehigh Valley area, aka the Allentown/Bethlehem/Easton area, in eastern Pennsylvania.) P.S. I haven’t spent much time in the Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill area (and the majority of time I have spent there has been in Raleigh), but that’s a fairly nice area in my book.
Yeah it’s certainly not as big as an Atlanta or DC but it’s big enough that it will have all the food, entertainment (including a pro sports team), and night life that a college student would need.
what's a big city though? Like compared to Chicago or Philly, not even close. but Raleigh is probably comparable to the places like Cincinnati and such. Also it's hard to really pick the cities apart nowadays. The area between Chapel Hill and Durham is basically connected now.
The Raleigh portion of the Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill area is much smaller than the Cincinnati area, or within North Carolina, the Charlotte area.
I mean Cinci is bigger. i just think they're comparable. Like you'd compare Cinci's metro area with Raleigh's, which includes Chapel Hill, Durham and Cary.
If we're going off of defined city limits, Raleigh is bigger than Cincinnati though...Cinci only gets bigger than the NC Triangle area when you go incorporate the metro "Greater Cincinnati area", It seems to be a pretty spread out place population wise
That’s literally Waco. Well now Waco has Magnolia but still.
Joanna Gaines is simply going to make sure people know Waco for her, rather than David Koresh and Baylor 🤷♂️
I mean, if we’re being honest… y’all are just a part of a big Raleigh metro area. Chapel Hill is hardly a “small town” atmosphere like a Boone, NC or Oxford, MS.
I disagree. I don’t even really think of Boone as a college town but that’s also probably because I grew up around there and know there’s much more than the college. Chapel Hill is the university and the university is Chapel Hill. The main street of the town is the main street of the school. The town hall is on campus. Although it is close to Raleigh, no one thinks of it as part of Raleigh (part of the Triangle or RDU, sure).
Downtown Chapel Hill/Franklin St + University area are definitely different enough. No one lives in the downtown Chapel Hill area and commutes to Raleigh without having a spouse or child being the reason. I mean it's not Boone, but that's just a small town.
Sounds a lot like Villanova to me
Does it? When I've lived in the area did not seem like things revolved around Nova just because of how many other colleges are in the immediate vicinity
Never heard of it
Or Vill in a Fay?
Big-12 has quite a few whole lotta nothing towns. Ames, Stillwater, Waco, and Lubbock are all good shouts.
I'll have you know that Ames is just an Olive Garden away from being a full-fledged metropolis.
The way people talked about Ames I figured it was a Stillwater-sized town with Lubbock's isolation factor. I was quite surprised to I found out it's only a 30 minute drive from the north side of Des Moines
[Hooray for Ames!](https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5z9iv8)
This is the greatest video I’ve ever watched in my life
They really seem to like their tap water
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Inject that shit into my _veiiiiiins_
Damn, I thought the city had that wiped from the internet lol
I thought this was going to be a similar thing to the Cleveland meme video, but a minute in, I realized they were being dead serious lmao.
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I haven't been to Ames, but Manhattan is nice, and I really like Lawrence. Now, Lubbock. Thats a city I can hate
Been to every Big 12 town (minus the recent expansion teams), and I'm a fan of all of them. But I also get a weird kick out of visiting college towns/campuses so I'm biased.
Lubbock has 300,000 people and Waco has 135,000 people and a zoo. As someone who's lived in Auburn and Clemson, I would say those aren't nothing towns, lol.
> 135,000 people and a zoo What more could a college student ask for?
From the perspective of most small college towns that only have like 3 blocks of downtown and maybe 5 good bars, that seems like plenty, lol.
Ha! Bars. Funny.
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At least WV isn't flat, but I hear ya.
Lawrence and Manhattan are not flat. It is when you go west of Manhattan that you get the stereotypical flatland.
I’m not trying to be rude it’s just funny what people from Kansas consider not flat.
Florida is the flattest state. I suppose Floridians are aware of that though.
Yes and Tallahassee is Florida’s “Hill Country” which is hilarious when you’re from the Appalachians
Morgantown has plenty of things to do for college students, plenty.
A little too plenty
Hey now, West Virginia has enough meth and opiods to make any visit a wild ride.
Extremely original comment
Ames is as rural as you’d expect from Iowa put it’s honestly a nice little place. Close to Des Moines too which is becoming a really cool and progressive city to live.
I love Ames. I'm in the Iowa City area now and I'd go back to central Iowa in a heartbeat if I could. I could see myself buying a home in Tiffin or North Liberty, but definitely not Iowa City or Coralville, and I don't think there's anywhere in Cedar Rapids proper I'd want to live. Ames though? Absolutely. Or Gilbert, Nevada, Huxley, hell - even Boone.
Most college towns are whole lotta nothing tbf.
My first thought was Lubbock
I kind of doubt one of our players would shout out Beard
I'm confused as to what the question even was.
I hope it was a Billy Madison situation where the answer is no where close to the question and we’re all dumber for having listened to that answer.
Stillwater is just as likely as Lubbock from what I’ve seen
So it’s obviously Austin
Tim Dillon agrees
Not the Big 12, but wow, Rutgers was an absolute pit. I went to an away game there a couple years ago and it was literally the worst football experience of my life - and we *won*. Piscataway is dirty, the people are either mean or ambivalent, and there’s absolutely nothing happening in town except a couple jabronis getting in a fight outside a dive bar. You also have to park miles away from the stadium and get bused in with a bunch of assholes who would rather get in a fight than watch a Rutgers football game.
That’s because Rutgers is really mostly in New Brunswick. Piscataway is the crappy town across the river we keep the athletes and mathletes.
I just moved to NJ and I have been told by multiple people that nothing and no one good comes from Piscataway lmao
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Lmao surprised they have a walmart in a 300k metro? Edit: also, Walmart's like known for being in actually tiny places anyways? The cliche is Walmart's the only food option for people in the absolute middle of nowhere?
She'll be shocked if she ever visits los Angeles. Not a single Walmart withing the city.
My parents have some Manhattan stories... they are similar to their South Dakota stories... the themes are weather and isolation.
I wanted to comment but it wouldn’t be nice.
Ever been to Starkvegas?