I still don’t understand how Rumph making a distinction between living in Miami and Tuscaloosa is incorrect. We have always said on this site that kids who want to live in college towns won’t want to live in Miami or Los Angeles, and vice versa. Maybe Rumph should have used College Station or Lansing or Gainesville as his example but he’s merely pointing out the difference between living in a city and living in a college town.
And as someone who grew up in Ann Arbor, MI, the epitome of a college town, and who needed to live in a city after high school, I agree with Rumph 100%. There is a reason the 18 year old me went to Miami. And the 22 year old me went to Emory Law School in Atlanta and only applied to law schools in major cities. Because i was stuck in Ann Arbor 7 days a week and it was slow and small and provincial.
Again, maybe don’t use Tuscaloosa as an example but the distinction is real. And for the kid who smirked, f*ck him