re: Best College Campus and City

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you mean to tell me that Broad Street is... Broad????

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Get the frick outta here

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To answer the question though, Chapel Hill, NC is my favorite.

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Don't know much about the town, but I've toured several college campuses in North Carolina and as far as just the campuses in NC go: Duke>>> Elon>>> Wake Forest> UNC-Chapel Hill>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> NC State

It's not even up for debate

UNC-Chapel Hill has a great campus, he'll it'd be #1 or #2 in the SEC. It's just that Duke and Elon are two of the top in the county IMO, and personally I just prefer the smallness of Wake Forest's campus to the more spread out slightly urban feel of UNC.

Monteg

I would like it more if athens was located in that city where the Uni of North Georgia is closer to the Blue Ridge.

i think my deal with UGA may have more to do with the type of architecture on those buildings on broad street immediately acrros from the arch and the lawn. those buildings are old but not really athestically pleasing. there are also taller high rises along broad that you don't see in Clemson, blacksburg, c'ville downtowns. reduces the quaintness.

Greenville SC main street used to be 4 lanes, they reduced it to two, wth angled parking and installed wide sidewalks and bunch of big hardwoods that form a canopy over the street. Broad street looks hot just from street view, need to get some shade trees.

now Gville is a top 10 main street in america and wins all kind of awards. If athens did that to Broad street, it would take athens to a whole other level.

the lawn area near broad street is fine, looks simlar to USC's horseshore. but the campus feels too long and narrow, and the far end up it is not that appealing. the fitness center seems far away from the dorms. the buildings in the area around the football stadium seem too crowded.

i have looked a ton of campuses across the country on youvisit.com

based on that, I would say UCLA is by far best in southwest. better strip area near campus too compared to others.

i saw Washington mentioned. i think it has a cool stadum with it being right next to the bay in seattle. but, the campus has this area that looks like the square in Moscow. i think it has a sinister look and i would feel like i was living in the USSR and could be purged or sent to labor camps in Siberia at any moment.

here is Wikipedia writeup:

'in 1969, the field was excavated, an underground parking garage was built, and the engineers who designed the garage thought that the rain on the grass would leak into the garage, leading to the choice of a distinctive red brick surface. Cassandra Amesely, then an editor of the student paper The Daily, convinced the student population to refer to the area as Red Square, presumably in reference to the color of the brick. Whether it was also meant to refer to Moscow's Red Square in an era known for student activism is unclear.'

even if other parts of washingston are nice, like the part with the cherry blossoms, this Red Square ruins it for many people. that is so ugly lol:



it is going to look just that pic most of the year, with the constant drizzle and overcast skies. lol 4 years of looking at that? wow

i lke more lush with dense tree coverage mountains like in western SC, and NC, the applachians.

the rockies have a stark look to them. southeast is more green.

Virtual Tour of Miss State

MSU looks nice in this virtual tour. Clean well landscaped campus and i like the architecture, less pretentious than other southern campuses wth greek columns on everything.

the Junction field in front of the football stadium looks nice, i cant think o any other campus that has that amount of greenspace in front of the stadium. uga sure doesnt. lol The barnes and noble next to the stadium may be the coolest looking one I ever seen.

i looked at Starkville on google maps and there is a lot more restaurants there than I realized and the downtown looks pretty cool and how a college town should look. kind of humble lol