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Spinoff thread : City vs College Town
Posted on 4/21/15 at 2:20 pm
Posted on 4/21/15 at 2:20 pm
Nashville is clearly a city with a college in it
Lexington was a college town 50 years ago but has been a separate city since at least the 80's
What about the other 12 homes of SEC schools?
Lexington was a college town 50 years ago but has been a separate city since at least the 80's
What about the other 12 homes of SEC schools?
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Posted on 4/21/15 at 2:20 pm to Cheese Grits
Auburn: college town.
Posted on 4/21/15 at 2:21 pm to Cheese Grits
Oxford = town that is rapidly out growing its infrastructure
Posted on 4/21/15 at 2:22 pm to Cheese Grits
BR is certainly more of a city with 2 colleges in it along with a community college.
Posted on 4/21/15 at 2:22 pm to Cheese Grits
Lexington is a city, but UK is a prominent part of the city. Same for Knoxville and Baton Rouge. Same for Columbia. Nashville has reached major city IMO, and Vanderbilt is just a slice of it.
Athens and Tuscaloosa and Gainesville are cities where the college drives the city.
Oxford, Auburn, Starkville, and Fayetteville are college towns IMO, although Auburn, Oxford and Fayetteville all seem to be booming and may soon not be so quaint.
Athens and Tuscaloosa and Gainesville are cities where the college drives the city.
Oxford, Auburn, Starkville, and Fayetteville are college towns IMO, although Auburn, Oxford and Fayetteville all seem to be booming and may soon not be so quaint.
Posted on 4/21/15 at 2:22 pm to Cheese Grits
Baton Rouge is a city with a college in it.
Posted on 4/21/15 at 2:23 pm to Cheese Grits
College station: college town
Posted on 4/21/15 at 2:26 pm to texag7
Tuscaloosa was a city before it was a college town. It is historical for reasons other than the University. However, the University drives the town and everything the town does.
I look at Auburn as a college town. The entire town (downtown, main drag, subdivisions, everything) would not exist without the college.
I don't know enough about some of the other mid-size college towns, but obviously Knoxville, BR, Columbia, Nashville, Lexington, etc are cities that have pieces of them not directly tied to the college.
Not good or bad, just the way it is.
I look at Auburn as a college town. The entire town (downtown, main drag, subdivisions, everything) would not exist without the college.
I don't know enough about some of the other mid-size college towns, but obviously Knoxville, BR, Columbia, Nashville, Lexington, etc are cities that have pieces of them not directly tied to the college.
Not good or bad, just the way it is.
Posted on 4/21/15 at 2:27 pm to Pettifogger
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Athens and Tuscaloosa and Gainesville are cities where the college drives the city.
Wiki said Gainesville only has 125,000 in it. Are their sister cities in the region that significantly add to that number?
Posted on 4/21/15 at 2:28 pm to c on z
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BR is certainly more of a city with 2 colleges in it along with a community college.
This was my thinking as well but I wanted others to confirm it.
Posted on 4/21/15 at 2:29 pm to Hugh McElroy
It looks like Tuscaloosa has about 180K. Is that right?
Bryan/College Station are truly twin cities (you can't tell when you've left one and entered the other), and there are slightly under 250,000 in the two cities.
Bryan/College Station are truly twin cities (you can't tell when you've left one and entered the other), and there are slightly under 250,000 in the two cities.
Posted on 4/21/15 at 2:29 pm to Hugh McElroy
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Wiki said Gainesville only has 125,000 in it. Are their sister cities in the region that significantly add to that number?
275000 in the metro. I mean, UF is huge, but that's still really large for a college town IMO.
Posted on 4/21/15 at 2:29 pm to Cheese Grits
College station = bustling metropolitan center
Posted on 4/21/15 at 2:30 pm to Pettifogger
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275000 in the metro
It's only slightly bigger and B/CS. That surprises me. I've been there, but only briefly.
Posted on 4/21/15 at 2:31 pm to Hugh McElroy
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It's only slightly bigger and B/CS. That surprises me. I've been there, but only briefly.
I'm guessing the population density around it may feel more condensed than Bryan/CS?
Posted on 4/21/15 at 2:31 pm to Cheese Grits
Tuscaloosa is a very college dependent city
Posted on 4/21/15 at 2:32 pm to Cheese Grits
Fayetteville = college town, but...
2-county population 1990 - 160k
2-county population 2014 - 480k
Also projected to have the 3rd fastest growing (% wise) metro economy thru 2020.
2-county population 1990 - 160k
2-county population 2014 - 480k
Also projected to have the 3rd fastest growing (% wise) metro economy thru 2020.
Posted on 4/21/15 at 2:32 pm to Pettifogger
Fayetteville proper will always be quaint. Now, if you drive north, the landscape changes tremendously. As a student who began school there in 1989 I cannot begin tell you the amount of change that has occurred. It was fun then and has exceeded what I thought possible over the years. Dickson and downtown are glorious and beautiful. I hope most of you come up a time or two to experience all it has to offer.
Posted on 4/21/15 at 2:32 pm to Hugh McElroy
Tuscaloosa has 2 colleges and a community college. Alabama, obviously, but also Stillman which is a HBCU with about 1,000 students. Then it has Shelton State Junior High.
Posted on 4/21/15 at 2:33 pm to SummerOfGeorge
College station has a&m and then Bryan has blinn and blinn is fricking huge for a 2 year college
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