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what is so great about ann arbor? When I went it was cold and dreary, people seem to be less happy than most college campuses, bars seemed less upbeat and fun, and the girls were less attractive than elsewhere.

My basis for comparison of other colleges and the cities they are in are Duke and UNC (Durham and Chapel Hill), UGA (Athens), Emory (Atlanta), Tulane (New Orleans), NYU (NYC), USC (LA), Florida (Gainseville), Auburn (Auburn), and Georgetown (DC). All of those are colleges I visited between enrolling in undergrad and age 23 that clearly surpassed Ann Arbor in terms of campus environment and things to do within 15 min of campus. Ann Arbor was better than Georgia Tech (Atlanta) and Notre Dame (South Bend) and thats it.

Have you actually been to USC's campus? Or just Los Angeles? USC's campus is garbage, and you have to value weather an insane amount to prefer it over Ann Arbor and South Bend.

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Also lol at Durham, now there is a ****hole.

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Pepperdine is GOAT college campus. Coastal's Myrtle Beach campus was ****ing awesome too.

Stanford's blew me away as far as campus without awesome beach nearby

UCSC was interesting for the beach nearby and copious amount of weed

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Surprised it took this long.

Took me a little while to get into the thread this morning, but I never pass up an opportunity to make that joke

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Have you actually been to USC's campus? Or just Los Angeles? USC's campus is garbage, and you have to value weather an insane amount to prefer it over Ann Arbor and South Bend.

disagree

basically, I rate campuses on "how likely is one to slit their wrists here"

USC is much lower on that scale than Michigan or ND. The lack of dreariness cannot be overstated.

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The south's college campus' just ****ing crush. UNCWilmington is absurd nice and 10 minutes from the beach. UNCAsheville is in the prettiest city in this country(my completely misinformed opinion but if Asheville was 200 miles east I'd have never left).

I just can't believe places where you have to put on winter coats could even come close to that. God I hate the ****ing north so much.

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I just can't believe places where you have to put on winter coats could even come close to that. God I hate the ****ing north so much.

True that... too bad my wife has to live around a big publishing city, ie Boston, New York, or Chicago.

I spend as much time as possible away. If I cannot wear beer logo flip flops, it's not somewhere I want to be.

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disagree

basically, I rate campuses on "how likely is one to slit their wrists here"

USC is much lower on that scale than Michigan or ND. The lack of dreariness cannot be overstated.

The crips shoot people, I think.

Anyway, Ann Arbor has a good park system, a good mix of homes, good schools, a variety of restaurants (not just campus bars), excellent city services, good healthcare. Weather might suck, but it's not like it's any different than Bloomington, Madison, Syracuse, Eugene, or whatever else from the north.

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It's significantly different from at least a few of the cities listed
avg snowfall - 58.4 inches
avg snowy days - 53.2

Bloomington, IN
avg snowfall - 15.5 inches
avg snowy days - don't even track

I've spent the majority of my life in Chicagoland. My wife is from way south Illinois, Rend Lake area. The difference in the weather from one to the other is huge.

almost every town has what you mention. The weather is not something that changes as easily.
USC is a short drive from so much stuff. Sure, next to watts, but it's not hard to get to the beaches or Hollywood Hills, or whatever.

Ann Arbor is nice for hunters and white militias.

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There are schools good enough and cities interesting enough to justify being cold and away from good scenery. The University of Michigan and Ann Arbor, respectively, are not among them.

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lol park systems mattering for college kids

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There are schools good enough and cities interesting enough to justify being cold and away from good scenery. The University of Michigan and Ann Arbor, respectively, are not among them.

List please

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lol park systems mattering for college kids

Why not? I see plenty of kids there laying out, tossing a frisbee around, running on trails.

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Syracuse - 128inches of snow per year - no ****ing wai

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lol park systems mattering for college kids

He's clearly talking generally. Otherwise listing schools as a plus when you're attending college would be stupid.

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Why not? I see plenty of kids there laying out, tossing a frisbee around, running on trails.

Most colleges, especially the land grant ones, have more open space on their campuses than Michigan does, so they don't need the local town to have some uber park facilities - almost all do anyway with transient professors paying the property taxes

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Ok, so pick the one example. It has weather similar to the average b10 school. Jesus.

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one of the few good things about Northern schools is that first 60 degree day in March when the flesh comes out

comparing that to what you see on ASU's campus, for example, all year, though, is a very sad subject.

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The arb is on campus afaik

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But ASU misses out on the Spandex/Ugg season!

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There are schools good enough and cities interesting enough to justify being cold and away from good scenery. The University of Michigan and Ann Arbor, respectively, are not among them.

other than the ones in big cities - Boston, NY, Chicago, Seattle - cannot really think of any

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Never understood the cold weather spandex thing, i would think sweatpants would be much warmer

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List please

Mittens List of Reasons to Be Cold Throughout College:

Schools (top of my head, probably more, sortbyusnews.jpg if you want):

Ivies
Northwestern
MIT
UC
JHU
Amherst
Williams
Bowdoin
Tufts
Gtown (ish)
Swarthmore
Probably some other liberal arts colleges I'm forgetting

Cities (basically any actual big city):
NYC
Boston
Chicago
Washington
Philadelphia
Probably more I'm not thinking of

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