I listen to podcasts, like all faux-cutting edge Ipod owners. One of the podcasts I listen to is called "Geek Nights", done by an old friend from high school, and in the cast they did last Thursday, their day of ranting, they talked about living the college life, and to do that properly after college, you need to leave a college town and move away to find a good job and good pay. It's got a good amount of valid points, but my own feeling is that their might be one or two more categories to add to that list, suburb towns and worthless towns.
Suburb towns exist as satellites to big towns, and can be thought of as a town that (borrowing a metaphor from Sim City), consists of only commerial and residential zones. You can occasionally mistake a college town as a suburban town, because they exist for the same reason. They exist to support some external money structure, and in and of themselves contain few goods jobs. Most Factory towns are surrounded by a spate of suburb towns, given a sufficently large industrial base.
Worthless towns contain all the bad factors of any aspect you can find in college towns, but they have no excuse. I will use my current residence, Daytona Beach, as an example. This city, and most of the surrounding towns it seems, exist to support the NASCAR raceway and the beach as a tourist attraction. Both of these are infrequent providers of the giving mana of money, with seasons that come and go like the tides on the beach. This leave this county as one of the worst-paid in the state.
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