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This poster is being unfairly downvoted. Having a college in your city does not make your city a “college town” by the colloquial definition most people would u
by the_lonely_road 5y ago
This poster is being unfairly downvoted. Having a college in your city does not make your city a “college town” by the colloquial definition most people would use in casual conversation. The term is generally reserved for cities that only exist outside of the rural land around them because of the state university that got placed there.
No one would ever refer to Miami Florida as a college town despite there being a major university, USF, there. Same with Tampa Florida where UCF is. But Gainesville, where UF is, would be a giant watermelon farm if the college wasn’t there so it’s referred to as a college town.
- duped 5y agoUSF is in Tampa, not Miami. The major Universities in Miami are FIU and U of Miami, but the latter is in Coral Gables, and is a lot like some other college towns like Cambridge, Berkeley, or Evanston.
- s0rce 5y agoIs Evanston really a college town? I was in grad school there and its so close to Chicago it just feels like a suburb. I've never lived in a true small college town. In Toronto my university experience was even less of a college town feel with the campus right downtown in a city of millions.
- tkojames 5y agoThis. My rule is if the the college never came would this place even exist? I saw someone saying Berkely is college town.. I guess people just have wildly different definitions of college town.