s/o Worst college towns?

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Here to defend New Haven. Great restaurants, good hiking (East Rock, West Rock) and beaches nearby, many cute old houses that are relatively affordable, easy walking to neighborhood amenities, amazing art galleries and museums, close to NYC and Boston ...

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Middletown PA or T

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Or CT

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Anonymous wrote:American University Park. Safe and clean, sure, but I can't think of a less collegiate place to go to school than a residential community of $2 and $3 million dollar homes and Ambassadors' residences. Hey, lets walk over to Tenleytown for fun! No thanks...

Went to college at AU in the 80s and we partied on campus, off campus and in Georgetown. Fantastic location

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I went in the 90’s. Walked to Quigley’s on New Mexico or Maggie’s in Wisconsin. Or just drank in the dorms. Sometimes. Georgetown. So many options!

Yes, used to be one of the top locations in country to go to college.

Those places blew. GW options in that era were way better.

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Anonymous wrote:Troy, NY

Definately! We visited (STEM kid) and as we pulled off the highway kid was like "we really don't need to stay for the tour, no way in hell am I spending even a semester in this place." I tended to agree, but we did tour and quickly removed RPI from our list.

Had the same experience.

I now know the area around Troy is gorgeous, but the town just looked like a shoe that had been left to
rot in a swamp.

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Anonymous wrote:Threads like these are so interesting to me bc I didn't put much stock in towns when applying to colleges beyond the safety around campus factor. I can't imagine writing off a school like Purdue due to the town, especially if I wanted to pursue engineering. Purdue is its own town!

But anyway, different strokes.

The fact it's an hour from the airport is a turnoff for us. That gets costly to arrange travel at every break. Not to mention, I'd rather my DD not be in an Uber/Lyft alone for an hour (I'd want the same for a DS). very different than a 10-15 min ride for many schools.

Not anymore! West Lafayette's airport is going to start having regional airline flights starting in May. That airport's technically located on campus (hence it being called the Purdue University Airport), and is only a ~5 minute drive from the center of campus.

Well that will be awesome for Purdue students. Assuming they can get to ORD or DTW from there makes kids life so much simpler

For sure! The flights from West Lafayette (LAF) are to ORD and done in partnership with American and United Airlines, so plenty of connections. I believe the airport plans to expand to further routes (hopefully DTW, which it used to have flights to years ago), but is in the process of building a bigger airport terminal to handle those flights.

As a previous post mentioned, having such flights avoids the risk of getting stuck somewhere without a shuttle, so it'll be great

This is great, but be aware that those small flights out of O’Hare tend to get cancelled at the drop of a hat, especially in December and January, when it’s snowy. I say this as someone who’s wasted entirely too much time hanging out in that airport trying to get home for the holidays.

Oh, I get it. My kid connects thru DTW on a "small plane". Have had random issues when weather doesn't even seem to really be the issue. Had "the small plane cannot keep itself cool and it's 98+ degrees out and 120+ inside the plane (I know because was with kid in Aug and they actually boarded then got us off) So what is a 45 min flight got us there 4 hours late. Put that with the waittime between flights and we could have done the 6 hour drive from Detroit and gotten there faster (yes it was 8 hours from when we landed in DTW until we got to a destination 6 hours away).

Also had in winter---oh your 2pm connection today is cancelled (no apparent weather issues). And all of the other flights today (3 more) and 4 more tomorrow morning are "full", so here's your seat tomorrow night at 9:45pm (30+hours later). Good luck finding a hotel room for an under 21yo and no we won't help.

Yes! This is pretty much exactly how it goes.