Corvallis or Eugene

YES. Much prettier, quieter, and pristine.

I love rain hopefully Corvallis has plenty of cool dark rainy days in the winter.

One has a good university, lots of track meets, and all kinds of great places to run.

The other has a bad smell, an inferior university, no track and field to speak of, and drunk football players chasing after sheep.

Hey Eugene is clearly not That bad, I have yet to see any football players chasing after sheep...but Corvallis is by far the better running town, lots of history, Mike Jones' rock. Cowtown Pizza is a must see...

M. Pantani wrote:

Hey Eugene is clearly not That bad, I have yet to see any football players chasing after sheep...but Corvallis is by far the better running town, lots of history, Mike Jones' rock. Cowtown Pizza is a must see...

Way to "Beave" it.

There is no "town" in Corvallis.

Heard through the grapevine wrote:

One has a good university, lots of track meets, and all kinds of great places to run.

The other has a bad smell, an inferior university, no track and field to speak of, and drunk football players chasing after sheep.

Yeah, one place is congested with people, cars, dogs, has an ugly campus/community, overrated trails, and people who walk around with heads the size of watermelons because they're in "track town USA". The other place is small, quaint, beautiful campus/community/trails, and full of educated, humble, welcoming people. One place is great to live at. The other place is great for visiting (but not living).

I've lived in both towns. IMHO, after living in a lot of places around the country (e.g. California, Alabama, Michigan, Virginia), I found both Eugene and Corvallis to be a bit of heaven dropped on this earth. I absolutely love the scenery and the people of Oregon, but Corvallis and Eugene are unique in that they are University towns with decent enough size. Yes, one may be better than the other in some ways, but both are wonderful, out of this world, places. I'd like to be living in either of them right now if I could.

Heard through the grapevine wrote:

One has a good university, lots of track meets, and all kinds of great places to run.

The other has a bad smell, an inferior university, no track and field to speak of, and drunk football players chasing after sheep.

OSU is the bigger research university with better funding despite the fact that Oregon has departs/schools that could give it the edge in that metric. Probably more useful work/research gets done at OSU than at Oregon.

I was on the faculty of OSU a numbers of years back, so I have a slight bias, but I am not one of those that is pro OSU/anti Oregon. I loved the NCAA meet at Hayward Field the last year OSU fielded a team and the last (male) track athlete competing for OSU (Van Calcar) won the 3000SC to the roaring accompaniment of the Oregon faithful. Maybe not as strong as for the top Oregon stars but very impressive.

Corvallis is a 'stand alone' town with a high dominant influence from the university, whereas not only is Eugene 2-3 times larger, but Springfield adjoins it an is also larger than Corvallis. This made Corvallis a more academic town than Eugene will ever be, with better schools etc. and with almost instant access to the countryside from anywhere in town. (I actually lived 11 miles to the west). The weather is the same, for all intents and purposes, although Eugene is a bit closer to the eastern edge of the valley and Corvallis to the western edge, some some coastal and winter clouds differing as a result.

Thank you for saying "for all intents and purposes" rather than "for all intensive purposes." You probably fit right in in highly educated Corvallis!

There weer no Oregon residents who won a medal at 2009 Berlin nor 2008 Beijing and only one at 2007 Osaka. I'd try Texas or So Cal instead.

Great review .

Corvallis is a way worse town if your a runner. OSU doesn't even have a Mens XC or Track team. Eugene gets the nod.

It is true that they chase after sheep in Corvallis.

That aside, Corvallis is nice. But you should go to Corvallis and Eugene only for the right reasons. If you are not connected to the Universities in anyway and not retiring, or don't have a good job ready and waiting for you, both cities can become like small dead end towns really quick. Except for the added negative of relatively high living costs.

But I would ask anyone who knows Corvallis, is Corvallis seriously a runner friendly town as much as Eugene is with its good running trails? I wouldn't doubt it, I just had never heard that it was.

If you are a runner it doesn't matter if the local school has a x country team, it helps but it doesn't decide whether it is a good town for running.