Nashville isn’t what I consider a college town anymore. It’s a metropolis...and a pro town now.
Granted, I haven't been everywhere (Missouri, A&M, Arkansas to name a few) but Knoxville seems a bit low here IMO, Oxford is so overrated it's ridiculous.
SEC towns ranked 1-14 -
I've been to every one of them. Here's my ranking
1: Athens
2: Nashville (for the CITY only)
3: Knoxville
4: College Station
5: Auburn
6: Oxford
7: Fayetteville
8: Baton Rouge
9: Columbia SC
10: Columbia MO
11: Tuscaloosa
12: Gainesville
13: Lexington
14: Starkville (seriously bored there)
Hoestly I thought about putting Lexington above Gainesville because the beer scene is definitely better. I just thought my anti Gator bias might be getting the better of me.Baton Rouge should be dead last. What a damn dump. The ONLY redeeming aspect is the football stadium. Also Lexington is way better than Gainsville.
Incredibly sad what they’ve done to the Strip. Lost all of its college feel where students can go have a great time. It sucks.
Never been to Athens, but I live in middle Tennessee and there’s zero doubt that Nashville belongs near the top.
Nashville was never a college town. Vanderbilt was simply here in a zip code that falls under Nashville but is technically the west end area. Anyone who is going downtown around 2nd or 3rd (the true down town) will never even see the Vanderbilt campus as it’s on the other side of the interstate.
Once you get past 500k you are no longer a college town in my opinion. You are just a town with a college and probably many.
Does anyone honestly consider Miami, Columbus, LA as college cities?
Nashville has gone down the toilet imo. I was raised there and it is a shell of it’s former self. Traffic is beyond insane, everybody thinks they’re a song writer, and crime is ridiculous. It’s ranking is undeserved and I would put it at 13,just ahead of Starkville.
I've been to all the following. Here is how I'd rank them
1. Oxford
2. Athens
3. Auburn
4. Fayetteville
5. Tuscaloosa
6. College Station
7. Gainesville
8. Columbia MO
9. Starkville
Knoxville, Baton Rouge, Lexington, Columbia SC, and Nashville arent college towns since they would still be small to medium sized cities without the university.
Yeah...that is why it is constantly ranked as one of the hottest cities and best places to live.Nashville has gone down the toilet imo. I was raised there and it is a shell of it’s former self. Traffic is beyond insane, everybody thinks they’re a song writer, and crime is ridiculous. It’s ranking is undeserved and I would put it at 13,just ahead of Starkville.
Nashville, Tn. should not be in the mix. Its crime rate has been increasing and is beginning to rival Memphis, Tn. Knoxville, is not far behind. I have not forgot about the two young people who were carjacked, tortured for two or three days, then murdered in my home town of Knoxville. Has put a bad taste in my mouth. It also makes me sad things like this can happen.
When I make plans to visit a town or large event with my family, crime rate plays a big part in my decision to go, or not.
Yes I am.
You are also right about Knoxville not being crime ridden like Memphis. Memphis should be lumped in with cities like Detroit, Baltimore, DC, La,,etc.
If I had my way, a big part of Knoxville would have been burning after those murders. That is how bad it affected me.
Just one guy here who is sick of violent crime and liberal judges, in general.