Comments on: Affordable College Towns for Retirement http://gotoretirement.com/2009/11/affordable-college-towns-retirement/ A Baby Boomer's Journey from Retirement Planning to Retirement Living Tue, 16 Mar 2010 17:58:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 By: Ken http://gotoretirement.com/2009/11/affordable-college-towns-retirement/comment-page-1/#comment-1853 Ken Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:36:47 +0000 http://gotoretirement.com/?p=4274#comment-1853 I can not for the life of me comprehend how a magazine could categorize a major city like Houston (or even a smaller city like Ft.Worth, Akron or Tulsa) as a "college town". To me a college town is a town where a the culture, lifestyle and economy are driven and dominated by a college or university (even if that town might have other relatively large employers). Gainesville Florida, Eugene Oregon, Boulder Colorado to me those are college towns. I can not for the life of me comprehend how a magazine could categorize a major city like Houston (or even a smaller city like Ft.Worth, Akron or Tulsa) as a “college town”. To me a college town is a town where a the culture, lifestyle and economy are driven and dominated by a college or university (even if that town might have other relatively large employers).

Gainesville Florida, Eugene Oregon, Boulder Colorado to me those are college towns.

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