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Goat 4 Eva

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I routinely get on this kick of trying to defend Starkville to some idiot yankee or someone from Georgia or wherever that has never been to Starkville. They think it's ****, obviously. But if they visit, they realize it's a great small college town with a great atmosphere, especially when the students are in town and there's an event going on. <div>
</div><div>But that's not what makes a good town.
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</div><div>I'm thinking things that most people outside the state don't know about Starkville. Maybe the Refuge, the River. Relative cheapness of liquor, Cotton District. What else? I think we maybe should be embracing the smallness of Starkville, instead of trying to validate to supposed elitists (or maybe that's just me).</div> </div>
 
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MedDawg

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What's so great about Tuscaloosa and Baton Rouge compared to Starkville? We have bars, and they have more bars. We have a few decent restaurants, they have more and maybe some really good restaurants, which normal college students aren't able to eat at anyway. Also, Tuscaloosa and BR have a LOT more crime and traffic. SEC towns are not large, progressive urban centers like New York City, Los Angeles, or Chicago. Heck, not even Dallas or Houston. SEC cities are just big versions of smaller towns with a few more advantages and a lot more disadvantages. So why do they get to put down Starkville?<div>
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has more ****** looking strip malls than any other city in North America and people regularly sport cutoff jean jorts and mullets out on the town..... BR has a 17ton of traffic and what idiots are on the roads drive like they took their driving test on the Bumper Car ride at a fair. Rubber cars would make a killin in this **** hole. Crime here is pretty damn bad. Since Katrina, BR has been top 5 in murders per capita. Have at least one a day and I think they've already put more of a dent in the local population this year, as they did the entire year last year.

I enjoy getting to Starkville to games as much as I love getting the 17 away from a bunch of idiots who love a school they've never even attended one class at.

Anyway, I'm getting the 17 out of here in the next month or so. Headed to the Big Easy........
 
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VirgilCain

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And it especially applies to the past.... We have a "laissez-faire" type of attitude.

It makes the people, attitude, and atmosphere great... but makes the physical representation of the town ****. For lack of a better description, it's kinda like an "I don't give a **** attitude", but in a more positive sense. It's great for people and interpersonal relationships (non-judgemental, accepting)... but terrible for city infrastructure. Some times I wonder if the city council has said, "you want to build WHAT?...WHERE?.....17 IT, I'm down!". Until the past decade, there has seemed to be almost zero planning for town layout and new construction.

Example 1: the Cotton District (speaking more to the past, before it exploded with bars & restaurants) is one of the most fantastic places I have ever spent time.... but its made out of some of the shittiest housing I've ever seen. It's the people that congregate in that area that make it awesome (basically pseudo-hippie attitudes, minus the gheyness of full-blown hippies). People there are down for anything, and it probably wouldn't be possible if it was comprised of new, upscale housing. I'd be willing to bet that if you could conjure up some statistics, it has some of the worst class attendance numbers of all student housing areas, even though it's probably the closest to campus. It definitely was not conducive to me graduating on time but, damn, it was some of the most fun of my life. I wish I hadn't waited until my senior year to move there (that is...my first senior year**)

Example 2: Some of the most prime real-estate in Starkville is occupied by hundreds, maybe thousands, of dead people. How the 17 does the social district of a town develop around a center-point, which is.... a giant graveyard? That **** can only happen by pure accident.

But like I said earlier, the look of Starkville is changing quickly. Starkville has probably changed more in the past 10 years than it had in the 50 years prior. For visitors' perspective, the new HWY 82 bypass entrance to town was HUGE. Before then, visitors entered on the old 2-lane HWY 82 (now 182), which is probably the worst area of Starkville, especially aesthetically. I can't imagine what went through visitors minds when then drove into Starkville for the first time, and old HWY 82 was their first impression of Starkville.
 
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SallyStansbury

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The horror.....
Isaid Starkville was awful before it was cool to know Starkville actually kicks ***.
Pleaseknow that Imustdrive in my Prius to Tuscalosa or Birmingham, and go to the Starvkille market and buy nothing!
How dare you suggest Starkville is great?
 
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SanfordRJones

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Your picture of a metrosexual in a Danzig t-shirt notwithstanding, a Thai restaurant would be pretty great.
 
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I've met some high school students who want to be in a big town--they don't get it. The best part of college is the little mayhem you create with your friends in a town that doesn't have much going on. I had many friends who went to Georgia Tech and Georgia State--you lose so much in a big city. You can't just walk to basketball game, then to a friend's house, then to a bar. Starkville is the perfect size for a college town. The students basically run the town during the school year, it's very safe, there are good bars, and most everything is within walking distance. Plus, the campus is beautiful and has a great sports facility.<div>
</div><div>But, I wouldn't want to live in Starkville as an adult.
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</div><div>Tuscaloosa is a hellhole. </div></div>
 
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dawgs.sixpack

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yeah, i mean i wouldn't live in starkville again, but for a college town it's great. and i definitely don't see what makes oxford or auburn or clemson or other small college town amazing while starkville isn't. imo they are all a variation of the same thing. i mean, i'd like to hear someone justify oxford being wonderful and starkville awful. in oxford you have the square and what, like a few blocks of fast food and then you are on the highway? just has always seemed extremely underwhelming to me compared to the hype it gets. especially in light of the **** starkville gets. in reality, there isn't much difference, but in perception, it's night and day. and god forbid you try to tell someone that who hasn't been to starkville and either has or hasn't been to oxford.
 
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EAVdog

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You do get the pleasure of being shot in the back in your parking deck and having your home invaded by gun wielding locals. I mean that's pretty cool why wouldn't everyone want to go to school in the big city.

(yeah I actually live here and crime is sort of a big deal)
 
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that I don't feel comfortable drunkenly walking back from a bar. <div>
</div><div>On the positive side, my GT friends called me a few times and let me talk to a drunk/stoned bum. </div>
 
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drt7891

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Only thing that I wish I had done was lived in the cotton district (too expensive), but I've had some good times down there, for sure.
 
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I can't imagine what went through visitors minds when then drove into Starkville for the first time, and old HWY 82 was their first impression of Starkville.
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Goat 4 Eva

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I was never impressed with Auburn. What they have going on that we don't, is good public schools, a big lake nearby, Grand National, and being in a bigger populated state with better proximity to a big town. It's not like the bars and restaurants are any better. Or the campus.
 
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