I lived in CS for like 5 years and still have a town home there. I voted Austin. CS should be compared to Sugar Land or something. Not a major city.
I've lived in both and I prefer College Station. (I have no affiliation with UT or A&M so I'm not biased) Austin seems to be full of these people who think their town is just SOOOO cool. It drives me bonkers. It's just like any other college town to me. College Station has less obnoxious people on Northgate than 6th street, and the traffic is way easier to manage. It's an easy vote for me.
I see that. I think I would go insane if I had to make a living in either town. Both of them have issues with people generally all being a certain, ultimately tiring way.
the voting is going to go for whether or not you like ut or a&m - its not about the town - aside from the fact that both cities have large universities they could not be any different - its a total apples to oranges comparison. its not really fair to compare a city of over 1 million to one of what i guess is about 50,000 (non-student).
A friend of mine who went to A&M insists that the city College Station is better than Austin. I told him I would post a poll here and even challenged him to post the same pole on TexAgs.com. I believe both polls will be have the same overall result. I think he's too scared to see those results, so opted not to post the poll. If anyone here is a member of TexAgs, could you post this poll there and link us to the results.....Thanks.
I currently live College Station and only visited Austin and it's still Austin by far. Kind of unfair to compare a town to a mid-sized city.
Anyone who actually likes College Station is probably suffering from some mental disability, spent all their life living in a place like Caldwell, or both.
invalid question: C-Stat isn't a "city". but if I had to choose, I'd go with College Station any day. Give me quiet safe peaceful small town over peace-love-life smoke trees hippie capital ANY DAY. :grin:
this informal poll illustrates one of the reasons why the Aggie football program is in the dumps and can't attract the kind of talent it once did.
Psh Austin is nowhere near as "peace-love-life" anymore. It's way more commercialized in reality than the stereotype. During the 60s and 70s Austin used to be a very different place according to the locals. Denver is what Austin wishes it could be (again).
Austin is just an awesome place, College Station I only have been through, but it wreaked of Budweiser and incest.
I don't know about that. Norman, Oklahoma and State College, Pennsylvania don't sound that appealing but OU and Penn State are usually top ten in recruiting.
