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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think the worst college towns are the slightly/very depressed 50,000 - 100,000ish places.

Towns like Allentown (Muhlenberg), Easton (Lafayette), Troy (RPI), Binghamton, etc.

They are too large on their own for the university to kind of dominate the town, but the towns themselves are fairly boring, not super-safe, etc.

At least, State College is dominated by PSU and has cool stuff, or colleges in large cities get the benefits of the large cities.

Or at least a Williams or those types of schools, you know exactly what you are getting from the college experience.[/quote]

We toured Muhlenberg and Lafayette and thought parts of Allentown and Easton were fine, nice even.[/quote]

Parts are fine...but my point is that the city provides almost no benefit to the college experience.  The area around Muhlenberg is dead as doornails...Muhlenberg might as well be in the middle of nowhere.  Yet, there has been a crime uptick, and again, while Muhlenberg's neighborhood is safe...it's not nearly as safe as like say a Bucknell.

There just is not much upside to the city itself.[/quote]

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