Do you live in a university town?

[gsdx]

Peterborough has Trent University and a number of colleges, the biggest of which is Fleming College, named after Sir Sandford Fleming who once lived around the corner from where I live now.

At this time of the year, with students pouring into the city from all over the world, the population of Peterborough increases by over 10,000. (Trent hosts about 7,000 students on its own.)

Do you live in a college/university town? If so, how many students make your town 'home' for the year?

 

[chatolandia]

We have two large colleges and a few smaller ones. Some are rather old. But they are all in the suburbs, so this town rarely feels like an university town

except on Park Ave fest, when the whole Park Ave turns into a drunken frat party

 

[LilBit]

Carrboro itself isn't technically a college town, but a large portion of the population is affiliated with UNC-Chapel Hill--mostly faculty, staff, and grad students. There hasn't been much of a change in Carrboro since classes started (aside from the buses going back onto their full-service schedule), but Chapel Hill has gotten much busier.

Right now, we have about 29,000 students, over a third of whom are grad or professional students.

 

[gsdx]

Yes.

I live in Bristol (the original two-thousand-year-old one in England ... not one of the modern-day foreign name-sakes)

Is that the one in "Shipshape and Bristol fashion"?

I live close to SIUE, but I don't consider it being a college town.

SIUE stands for Southern Illinois University Edwardsville .

When I was younger, a college was built near the town where I grew up. The name was to be 'South Hastings Institute of Technology' until someone wrote down the acronym for the first time.

 

[Spiff]

I live close to the Ohio State University, although several miles from campus. And I am an alumni. But the entire city of Columbus, lets make that the entire state of Ohio, is programmed to be obsessed with Buckeye football from now until the end of season. The local news, radio, at work, at the store, family, neighbors . .. everywhere you go. It's a gay man's hell this time of year. I'll watch an occasional game, but if you don't have the name of every player memorized, then its like the entire town of Stepford is out to assimilate you.

 

[resonance]

If a Los Angeles neighborhood could be considered a "university town", then Westwood would probably be a part of the category.

The entire shopping district was designed with UCLA in mind and practically all apartment complexes in a mile or so radius use the academic calendar in their renting cycles.

The Medical Plaza and Ronald Reagan (where celebrities die or go crazy) are also run by the university.

 

[MTLDude]

There are 4 university in Montréal (Université de Montréal, Université du Québec à Montréal, McGill University and Concordia University) plus a dozen or so college called CEGEP (Accronym for Collège d'Enseignement Général et Professionnel) where student for two years between High School and University.

 

[CowboyBob]

I do. There's a large university and also a large military base in the medium sized midwestern town where I live. This means there's a large gay population and the percentage of hot men is high. I've met many gay men in the military here and of course the University. There's a lot of nightlife if you're into that...... I'm a homebody so that doesn't appeal to me much anymore. The population increases by 15,000 when school starts. I used to teach at the University for 3 years but quit for other venues.

 

[hotdog1846]

I would love to live in an archetypal college town -- Boulder, Austin, Cambridge. I love the intellectual vibe and the diversity.

The town I live in is mostly a military town, but the University of Colorado has a campus here, and The Colorado College is here too.

 

[BlondeCanadian]

Is that the one in "Shipshape and Bristol fashion"?





When I was younger, a college was built near the town where I grew up. The name was to be 'South Hastings Institute of Technology' until someone wrote down the acronym for the first time.

BAHAHAHAH Hastings had a college?! why ? they dont even have a name brand fast food restaurant..

 

[BlondeCanadian]

Also, I do, but I am in fact a student so i guess this sort of doesnt count lol... thorold, Ont

 

[BlondeCanadian]

thorold aprox 20k populations. 17k students not sure how many live there though

 

[unloadonme]

Yes, I do.

According to Wiki, the University of York has 13,490 students and York St John University has 6,535.

In Leeds, where I work, the University of Leeds (my alma mater) has 32,370 students, Leeds Metropolitan University 27,800, Leeds Trinity University 3,445 and Leeds College of Music 680.

 

[Yooper]

I work in one. I also went to school there back when Dinosaurs roamed the earth.

I could tell when the students came back a couple of weeks ago. Traffic increased exponentially and there was at least one day when twelve couch fires were reported (it is evidently easier to burn your couch on the sidewalk than move it).

We also saw a dramatic increase in the theft of Polo Ralph Lauren shirts (both mens and womens) that week forcing us to add ink anti-theft tags to the entire stock of the stuff.

Boulder recently cracked the 120K year round population mark, and the estimate is about 25,000 undergrads 'not counted' in the census. It is a lot more congested than it used to be.

 

[geloge]

Granada is one of the biggest and oldest Universities in Spain. There are 56,000 students.

 

[ronboy]

Let's see....

University of Rochester...4,600 undergraduate students and 3,900 graduate students

Rochester Institute of Technology...14,000 undergraduates and 2,700 graduate students

St. John Fisher College...2,700 undergraduate students and 1,000 graduate students

Nazareth College of Rochester...2,200 undergraduate students and 1,000 graduate students

Roberts Wesleyan College...2,000 undergraduate and graduate students

State University of New York at Brockport (18 miles west of Rochester)...7,000 undergraduates and 1,700 graduate students

State University of New York at Geneseo (30 miles south of Rochester)...5,000 undergraduate students

Monroe Community College...19,000 students (2-year degrees)

Genesee Community College...7,200 students (2-year degrees)


Yup, I would say that the area I live in is a college town.....

 

[bulge]

I lived in 2 university towns. Now often visit a third one to watch the goods in guys pants. Fascinating. Nowhere do guys show off so greedily and are there that many M2M cruising places.

 

[maxpowr9]

Boston has over 300k college students. It has the largest amount of college students per sq mile in the world. There has been much debate to include said students in the census because it is a huge burden on the state (police fire etc) to watch over these students.
The massive amount of college students is also the reason that happy hour is "banned" in MA.

 

[Zu-Mendel]

Tampa FL has USF (my current alma matter) which is 49k+ in student population. Tampa is a nice place considering all the bullshit that goes with living in Florida.

 

[erobert]

I live in Chicago but the bordering northern suburb is Evanston, IL, home of Northwestern University. Even though it has a population of 78,000 it's pretty much a college town in my book. Well the east part is at least.