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• originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  more shit just happens in college towns. the youthfulness of its constituents require more diverse and populous entertainment districts.

  the opposite is true of retirement communities.

  i visit both types often, the difference is stark.

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• HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  For small towns, colleges are usually the best economic engines.

  You bring in a higher educated group of residents to teach and run the school, which generally has benefits to the community at large.

  Due to the student body coming in and out a lot, you generally get better transit options or just plain walkability/bikeability compared to other small towns.

  You are probably going to have a more vibrant arts scene, in part due to the greater number of college students able to volunteer.

  Colleges are also usually more resistant to economic shocks than other small town economic drivers, so the economy is going to be more stable.

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• greedytacothief@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  College towns usually mean that the town doesn’t have any identity outside of the college. In some ways that’s nice, because you have a big community right there. But in other ways the town won’t really do anything without the college.

  Sorry it’s been a really long week and the brain worms are getting to my language center…

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  • Bahalex@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Depends on the town. I grew up in and went to college in a small town - pop. 16,000 ish. It was the reverse, students came for mostly 3 reasons; it was as far from home and still pay in state tuition, it was (is?) a quirky place where no one really cared how high you flew your freak flag, or to for the pot.

    The college brought in diversity and employment, but wasn’t really the identity of the place.

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• ctkatz@lemmy.ml ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  not to me.

  I stayed in a college town for a summer in a state college prep type program, so I would have been at the perfect age to really enjoy the “college town” experience. it’s not really for me. and it doesn’t really have much of anything to do with the town itself. I liked the place that I stayed in. however driving over 30 minutes to go to a place as middling as a japanese restaurant was not so appealing. having services around is important to me, so unless it’s a giant college town like lexington, ky I’m not going to be interested.

  ps. I’m not going to live in lexington because lexington sucks.

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  • Donjuanme@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’m not sure you and op share definitions of college town,

    Driving a distance to get food, especially foreign food, is the anthesis of my (and presumably op’s) idea of a college town.

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