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Charlottesville is nice, but the Downtown area is not as described by the frequent poster here.  I drive there and most UVA students would be taking the trolley rather than walking.  The Corner has some nice spots and is convenient for many, but isn't like Ann Arbor or 6th Street by any stretch.  If you live over past the football stadium, a couple of places there like Durty Nelly's on JPA would be more convenient.   My favorite part of Charlottesville wasn't actually Charlottesville.  I loved the Blue Ridge area about 20 miles to the West.  The scenery is beautiful and there are many wineries there now.  Not sure how many undergraduates go there due to cost and age.  [b]The thing I liked least about Charlottesville, and I'm sure this isn't unique to me, is 29 North.  A lot of the shopping is there, and the biggest movie theater, but you'll be driving and not walking.[/b]  It is unfortunate from an urban planning perspective.

To each his own.  I'd go to W&M undergrad again if I had it to do over.  [/quote]

That is actually SMART urban planning. The big box stores that need giant plots of land and parking lots are all relegated to the highway on the north side of town. University Avenue/Main Street is mostly small businesses - the only chains I can think of on Main Street are Starbucks, CVS, and some banks. Everything else is a shop or restaurant owned by a local. It's awesome.

What is the with movie theater mentions in this thread? Is there some movie theater ratio akin to the Waffle House Index?[/quote]

I am about to make a very important point, so please pay attention: there is a Wawa within close walking distance of campus.[/quote]

Strip malls are SMART urban planning?  Anyone who knows Charlottesville knows that they could never agree on a bypass due to political reasons.  The people who own property on 29 North don't want traffic moving away from them.  The people whose land would be taken for a bypass were NIMBYs.  The county was happy to pull real estate taxes out of the city and succeeded wildly in doing so.  If cities weren't independent of counties in Virginia, it might have turned out different.    You can see areas where they are trying to interject new urban into 29 North like Shops at Stonefields, but it is awfully late now.   They didn't have to have the big box stores Downtown.  That isn't the issue.  [/quote]

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