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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Pizza delivery? Chinese delivery? Those count for something...[/quote]
Gosh, encourage the kids to at least take a walk into “town”: they will live in their car the rest of their lives.[/quote]

Something tells me there isn’t actually a town to walk to for some of these colleges.

My campus was pretty self contained. It wasn’t really walking distance to anything, despite being just outside a city. We had to drive to anything off campus. We definitely did order take out from time to time, though, so I think being close enough for pizza and Chinese food is worth thinking about (as a pp noted)[/quote]
So what was your school? Some mid-size unis and SLACs alike can be wholly isolated from their communities (rural or urban). I mean, most college kids in the United States have grown up in communities with nothing in walking distance. If you can’t take a walk off campus to get a darned slice of pizza or a coffee while in college, when can you? The vast majority (90% or more?) of residential colleges are not isolated, auto-dependent silos — so avoid those that are.
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We had a Pizza Hut counter in the student center and I imagine there is probably a Starbucks on campus now (I was there before they took over the world) But really, our campus wasn’t in a walkable area. The main gate was off a highway/main road and it just wasn’t a walkable location.

I visited another school in the same state with my daughter that was very similar. Could you walk off campus? Probably. But it just wasn’t an easy walk. There were busses at the main entrance to take you places, though. And I believe it actually was within city limits, so it’s close to things, just not a leisurely stroll away[/quote]

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