I was thinking about moving back to my old college town, but I dunno if it's depressing to live in one past your 20s. For perspective it has a total population of 200k and a student population of almost 35k.
I promise you it won't live up to the memories you made there, move on.
>>2546903Let it go, OP. I graduated from FSU two decades ago. The cooming situation was unreal in Tallahassee at the time, but I still remember being at the bar when I was 21 and seeing the grizzly 40-something washed-up hipster drinking until the end of the night to get whatever sloppy whore all the college kids passed over. Don't be that guy.
>>2547023Get your head out of the gutter, you fucking coomer.
>>2546903It's only depressing if you cannot enjoy being a spectator and watching the kids have fun.>>2546918You have to be a male who stands out from the dorks, faggots and academics - and who has the social skills to follow up on an interested smile. Your age is quite irrelevant.>>2547023In a country where 18-21s are not legally allowed to drink in bars, this advice is reasonably sound. >>2547033You don't have to impress college girls; in fact, they are turned off by oldfags who love to brag about themselves, thinking that doing so impresses a gullible young girl. Being casual and being yourself is the best choice. Casual like you get laid every night with a different slut. She will assume you are as good at fucking as you are at chatting.
>>2547023why not? he coomed
>>2546921>>2547023>>2547046also I guess for more perspective I'm 20 right now, I went there for college years ago for a few years and just continued my degree somewhere else across the country. I want to settle down because I'm sick of feeling like a drifter. It was a better town than anywhere else I've lived, which is why it appeals to me, but I don't want to sink the rest of my 20s in one place, just to feel foreign and alone again once I get too old. Where am I even supposed to live? suburbs, city?
lmao if you go to a college town as a good looking guy in your mid-thirties who has your shit together and no real autism you will clean up with the women. like shooting fish in a barrel. most of these girls go to college to experience the mature, grown-up real world...then they get to campus and all the guys their age just want to get sloppy drunk and party (I would know, I was one of them).there's a lot of social cachet for them in banging some townie who has his own house and a good, professional job. this dynamic can persist probably until your mid-forties honestly, I know guys who still do it.either way, I'm 35 and live in Madison. obviously not a strictly college town, but the university plays a huge part in municipal life. truth is that its perfect in basically all ways. the biggest drawback is that I have a long-term gf who I love very much and am extremely satisfied with, but she doesn't really like it when undergrad hotties hit on me with her standing right there. or when she catches me looking. lots of temptation follows me around this town.but in every other way its 100% A+ great decision. big city amenities in a small city package with reasonable housing costs.
>>2547139Live somewhere you can afford. You're 20, develop a marketable skill and worry about this midlife crisis in 10 years.
OP depends what your options are.Imagine the following choices:A: Small rural town with no university nearby. That means most of the young woman move away from the town and never return, and so your dating prospects will be shit.B: University Town: Will be saturated with an abundance of young hot woman, and as a man in his prime dating years you could clean up.C: City Lyfe: Can be fun and exciting, but expensive, and a lot of people become nobodies wrt dating, but some people will do well.Like the other anon said, you have to move on to being an adult. You probably won't create a new crazy party lifestyle in the university town, but at least you could have a good dating life.
>>2546903I don’t know if pic is related, but I know at least half a dozen people who stayed in Ithaca after they graduated and are very happy there. It’s a cool little town. But if you ARE talking about Ithaca, it has a population of less than 40,000, nowhere near 200K. I also grew up in a college town (not Ithaca), and know even more people who stayed in town into adulthood there, and some who left and came back, for all sorts of reasons.But to address your question, I don’t know if you will find living in a college town as a non-student depressing; I think it will depend on your job and social situation. I enjoyed growing up in one, and still like to visit once in a while. But I wouldn’t personally want to work at any of the universities I attended, unless I was teaching, which isn’t going to happen, which is for some grownups in college towns almost the only option.
>>2547245Cornell ice cream is so fucking good. It’s the only thing I miss from college lol
>>2547245Ayyy, Ithacan here. Don't have a job with the college but life is good here if you like the outdoors.
>>2547023Sounds like he was just enjoying his time (beats drinking alone at home) and if he even scored with some skank in the end, it's probably more than he hoped for
>>2546903College towns are basically the only small towns that don't make you want to seek Canadian healthcare in America.
>>2546903Yes. Do it. I was never a party guy in college, but I’d move back to Eugene in a heartbeat. Being a Grad Student in Summer was always so chill. The whole campus was yours. It’s also fantastic if you love sports.
>>2546903>total population of 200kits a modest city, not a college town
>>2547549I’m not sure what healthcare has to do with it, but as a born townie from a very little college town who ended up living in multiple college towns, I will say that one of the best things about them is that they’re nearly certain to have a better range of entertainment, food, and cultural offerings than towns of the same size without colleges. All of the college towns I’ve lived in (five of them in total, weirdly enough, although one was the aforementioned Madison, which is more of a small general-purpose city than just a college town) have been impressive in that way.
>>2546903its really based. I lived in New York (has among others NYU) for a couple of years. Was amazing.
>>2549808Yes that famous college town, New York.
>>2550299It ruled, I suggest everyone do it.
>>2550616How do you do it on a student budget? And not end up with a million dollars in debt?
>>2547996When I say "seek Canadian healthcare", I meant "kill yourself" - given the Canadian MAID. Small town America outside college towns is mostly depressing.
I took a job at my Alma Mater and moved back to mine when I was in my late twenties. In my experience, there are only a few negatives but they are big negatives. If it’s not a city, then professional opportunities outside of the university are scarce. And after about twenty-five or so, it can become really hard to date and have friends. Undergraduates are mostly eighteen to twenty-two. Most college employees are in their forties at least. You would think that there are plenty of graduate students and early career people, but if they are here I’ve not had an easy time finding them. In general, it’s just harder to be social and live a public sort of life. I found it really difficult to find ways to meet people. At the same time, I lived in a big city for just two years since I had a longtime girlfriend and old college friends there, I didn’t really have to worry about meeting people. So I don’t know if my experience is unique to the college town or if I would’ve experienced the same anywhere. I‘ve spent the last year traveling but I’m basically torn between going back to the college town or back to the city.
>>2547219Everyone thinks they would clean up with young women in a college town, but it’s not actually that easy to meet them outside of apps. It’s not like you’re going to hang out at college bars forever.
>>2547143College town + state capitol is probably ideal. My college town is basically Madison minus the state capitol.
>>2547023Every college town have establishments that cater mainly to locals, establishments that cater mainly to university employees, and establishments that to both, and they don’t cater at all to students. You just didn’t know about them or didn’t go to them because you were an undergraduate and not faculty or administration. But if you want to drink, you go to the those places. You don’t go to country bar with dollar shots every Wednesday. And if you want to meet women, you’re generally not doing it at a bar.
>>2550754I get zero matches with college girls on tinder, I think maybe my age range is too highI get somewhat better luck IRL but still not great even though women in general say im attractive
>>2547556This might be the best place in America
>>2547023I'm pretty terrified of ever moving back to Gainesville for this same reason. Granted, I was born there, so I can imagine a life there outside of just football and easy college girls, but yeah. I don't think most people can, and the people sticking around aren't really aiming for much more in life.
>>2550761>if you want to meet women, you’re generally not doing it at a bar.HIMYM
>>2547023Idk man. I graduated from FSU and I almost moved back once since the house prices were so much cheaper.I feel like a good dating app profile and a decent car can make things heavily in your favor in that city. You don't really need to go out to the bars and clubs to get laid nowadays.
>>2547143Can confirm. 8/10 ex in college called me over to introduce me to a 30something in line at a concert. She had brought him the day after I broke up w her, we both happened to be going I guess.
>>2551927I would be embarrassed to be in my 30s and in line for a concert with a bunch of 20-something’s.
>>2550752> actual testimony about living in college town> 0 replies
>>2551953One now :)
>>2547556kill ALL ducks
i still live in a college town because the rent is ridiculously cheap (only 15% of my monthly income and i have one roommate who is also a non-student and minds her own business) and it is walkable with a subway connecting to a major city. i've been working from home but will soon be going to my office in the city. just hop on the subway and go. i don't go to any of the bars or restaurants here because it's all college kid shit so i just go to town and it's no big deal. some places automatically give me the student discount prices because i still look young enough and they don't bother asking for my student id. i'm almost 30 and in spring and fall it can be a bit obnoxious and embarrassing dealing with frat bros and sorority girls partying all night and crowding the streets...but that's really the only downside. in summer and winter it's dead quiet.there is some crime since the dorms make easy targets for burglars but that means they are too distracted by dorms to pester regular folks. the walkability also means some bums come from the city to pester people but then they realize most of the people here are broke students so they don't last long. haven't driven a car in almost 10 years. in america.
>>2552751I'm scratching my head to figure out which college town and major city you're talking about. Is there a college town in the Philadelphia suburbs with a SEPTA station? I remember thinking that the train station at Swarthmore was cool, but it's not a subway. Presumably you're not talking about Somerville or Cambridge, because these aren't cheap or really college towns at all; most people I know who live there (including my brother) think of themselves as living in the city. I think most inner Boston suburbs think of themselves as neighborhoods of Boston, but I haven't lived in the region for quite a lot of years at this point. Anyway, it sounds like a good life, but I'm very curious to know where it is.
>>2552927Wait, maybe Rockville? And when you said rent was only 15% of your income, perhaps you weren’t saying the town was cheap, you were humblebragging about a high salary. Anyway, I’ve got friends from Rockville, if that’s correct. Sounds like a nice place.
>>2552751I also live in a college town, also 30, just turned 30 actually. I’ve been here since I went to college here, started getting a Master’s degree, got a job with the university, dropped out of the Master’s but kept the job. I think my experience is a lot like yours but different because there’s no city nearby. It’s a giant university, but it’s out in the countryside. No subway. No bums. Nothing like that. The walkable parts are pretty much student territory. You can still walk anywhere you want, but it’s more of a hike and less of a walk. The agricultural aspect makes up for a walk. If only I could afford a small farm or country house, I would never even think about leaving.
>>2552927West Chester. Villanova. I doubt either of those is where he’s talking about though.
>>2552690Corvallis is comfy as well
>>2546903College towns rule
I live in a college town. It used to be cool until the hippies started electing white guilt progressives who turned my city into a magnet for every schizophrenic fentanyl addict in the midwest.The only good thing is my house value is skyrocketing so hopefully one day i can leave this shithole.
>>2553169You in Champaign?
