Originally Posted by EggMcClone 
I think Ames is bigger than Manhattan and Stillwater but not by much.
It's kind of tough to compare towns like that (around 50K) with places like Lawrence, Norman, or Columbia (around 100K) and close to impossible to compare it to a place like Austin (1 mill+). They all have their advantages and disadvantages. I maintain that if you can't have a good time in any of those towns you're not trying hard enough.
great points. It's not hard to have a good time in a college town.
