Best college town in Virginia?

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Charlottesville if you can get in

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Anonymous wrote:Williamsburg. Come on.

Is this a joke? Nothing against W&M, but Williamsburg is a theme park plus a retiree community.

[Anonymous]

“Best” means different things to different people.

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My kids hated Blacksburg. I think Lexington wins. The publics in VA aren’t in great towns. Except for richmond, they all mostly feel like strip malls and suburbs.

[Anonymous]

Lynchburg. Liberty University, University of Lynchburg, and Randolph College are all there, and Sweet Briar is just outside of the city.

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Anonymous wrote:Lynchburg. Liberty University, University of Lynchburg, and Randolph College are all there, and Sweet Briar is just outside of the city.

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Anonymous wrote:Lynchburg. Liberty University, University of Lynchburg, and Randolph College are all there, and Sweet Briar is just outside of the city.

Now we are just naming cities that have colleges in them. Eg

Fairfax is the best college town in Virginia. It has GMU.
Virginia Beach is the best college town in Virginia. It has Virginia Wesleyan.
FarmVille is the best college town in Virginia. It has Longwood and Hampden Sydney.

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Anonymous wrote:As far as pure fun and college spirit go. I’m guessing it would be between Harrisonburg, Blacksburg, or Charlottesville. But if you think another town fits the bill, I’d be interested in hearing your thoughts as well.

Harrisonburg? Come on now...

Why not? The bars there seem to have a cool, quirky vibe.

Sure things have changed since I attended 90 years ago, but as I recall none of the bars are near campus. Everyone had to drunk drive somewhere.

Downtown Harrisonburg is definitely walkable from campus. When I visit my kid I park on campus and we walk to dinner

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Decades ago, Charlottesville was the obvious choice, but not this century. They paved the farmland on 29N to build massive amounts of housing. It is one big traffic jam now.

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Anonymous wrote:Decades ago, Charlottesville was the obvious choice, but not this century. They paved the farmland on 29N to build massive amounts of housing. It is one big traffic jam now.

+1 Charlottesville in the 90s was the best.

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Anonymous wrote:Do Tech upperclassmen have to drive to class? That would ruin the vibe for me.

They can drive or take the VT shuttle, which most do. Most universities have something similar.

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Anonymous wrote:Do Tech upperclassmen have to drive to class? That would ruin the vibe for me.

They can drive or take the VT shuttle, which most do. Most universities have something similar.

PP here - meant to add that lots of upperclassmen do walk to class if they live close to campus.

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Does being in a Christian conservative part of the Commonwealth count as + or -

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Anonymous wrote:Lynchburg. Liberty University, University of Lynchburg, and Randolph College are all there, and Sweet Briar is just outside of the city.

+1 very underrated city

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Anonymous wrote:Do Tech upperclassmen have to drive to class? That would ruin the vibe for me.

They can drive or take the VT shuttle, which most do. Most universities have something similar.

Yeah hundreds of students at UVA, JMU, W&M also take the bus, very normal part of being at college.