Any college towns?

[danhynes]

Can anyone tell me if there are any towns/ cities in NY where a substantial portion of the population is college students. Thanks

[Michael Fisher]

Can anyone tell me if there are any towns/ cities in NY where a substantial portion of the population is college students. Thanks

NY? ???

[joeyforpresident]

I'm finding tons of students on Xanga.com and MySpace.



Lots, and lots.

[jgmaynard]

Keene, Dartmouth and Durham are the big college (HOO_HOO!) towns

JM

[polyanarch]

We toured Plymouth during the Porc-Fest and found that it was a delightful little college town.   Not Madison, WI by any means...but a nice little town.  I can't live in a redneck hick town.  I need to be around people like me.  A college town has the feel that I'm looking for.  I get along with liberals much better than neo-cons.  That is, until my guns come out...

-Jim

[Russell Kanning]

better watch out .....? hicks are everywhere in NH .... you are not even safe in liberal college town enclaves like Dartmouth ..... or even lil' ol' Keene

some of us eat meat, believe in God and plot the overthrow of socialist government

[polyanarch]

better watch out .....  hicks are everywhere in NH .... you are not even safe in liberal college town enclaves like Dartmouth ..... or even lil' ol' Keene

some of us eat meat, believe in God and plot the overthrow of socialist government

I guess I over-generalized in the term "redneck."

I mean the small-minded one that would take me out back and drag me around by the pickup if they found out that I was a Pagan Bisexual Polyamorous Peace Protester.

That is if'n I didn't shoot them first.

[Russell Kanning]

there are a bunch of places you will like here

[mulp]

We toured Plymouth during the Porc-Fest and found that it was a delightful little college town.? ?Not Madison, WI by any means...but a nice little town.? I can't live in a redneck hick town.? I need to be around people like me.? A college town has the feel that I'm looking for.? I get along with liberals much better than neo-cons.? That is, until my guns come out...

-Jim

Which side of the town-gown are conflict are you inclined to be on?

For example, if you are on the town side where the college intellectuals and students think you are the idiot, and you think they are ivory tower snobs with too much money for their own good, then Lebanon would be a good choice - you can fume about how town property is expriopriated by the huge pot of university money and then taken off the property tax roles with what little affordable housing on it is torn down with nothing to replace it.  If you want to be in the gown side, Hanover is probably your style; the gowns have pretty much taken over.

;-)

My comments based on conversations with an aging hippie counter culture long haired friend who lives on a land trust in Canaan without electricity and until recently heating with wood, pumping water by hand, etc, and living on a subsistance wage counciling mostly the poor who are have the problems mostly associated with the poor, but also some who aren't poor, but are still alcoholic, druggies, or abusers.  And from my experience living in a town on the gown side.

A little more seriously, Nashua and Manchester are "filled" with colleges.  Certain parts of town have the small college enclave for one of the schools.  Given the States role in machining and other manufacturing, its more recent roles as home for military contractor, then computer technology, the decline of the latter and resurgence of military and now machining and manufacture, you will find lots of people who aren't into social-political-psycho babble, but are very smart.  And the less they get paid for what they do, the more creative and smarter they are.

[maxxoccupancy]

Manchester.  Thought the city is large, it has half a dozen campuses and numerous businesses that cater to the 20-something crowd.  The average Manchester resident is just 35, and there are lots of people in the 18-35 age bracket.

If you are interested in politics, there is a good political fight going on, and freestaters are quickly taking over the local Republican Party via the RLC.  If politics is your thing, Manchester puts about 10% of the state reps and senators into office.  You can have a much greater effect on state politics by moving here and getting actively involved.

More importantly, the night life is decent.  Friday and Saturday nights, Elm Street is covered with bar hoppers until midnight.  Manchester has a good police department, and there are plenty of rooms for rent in the area.  Some freestaters are also buying houses and renting out rooms to pay the mortgage.

--Albert "Max" Abramson
candidate for Selectman
Manchester Ward 5
maxxoccupancy@yahoo.com

[Russell Kanning]

I would not call Manchester a college town. I wouldn't call Boston a college town either ..... even thought it has a famous one in it.

Keene is a college town .... it's population goes up 20% when the kids come back to school.

Manchester has other plusses ..... it is in that unique position of being the biggest city in the state ..... so it is the focus of a lot of activity.

[margomaps]

In my whirlwind tour of NH last fall, I really liked Plymouth.  Nice little main street in a picturesque, hilly college town.  No idea what it's like to live there, but it sure looked nice.

[jgmaynard]

I forgot Plymouth. Yeah, that's a big college town. Speaking as someone who was born (!) in Machester and spent 15 years of my life living in that city, I would not call that a college town (sorry, Max!).

List: Darthmouth, Durham, Keene, Plymouth are the biggies for college towns.

JM

[aries]

Hanover - Dartmouth College
Plymouth - Plymouth State
Keene - Keene state
Rindge - Franklin Pierce College
Durham - UNH

All smaller towns with decent sized schools.

[AlanM]

Hanover - Dartmouth College
Plymouth - Plymouth State
Keene - Keene state
Rindge - Franklin Pierce College
Dover - UNH

All smaller towns with decent sized schools.

UNH main campus is in Durham