Travel & Leisure wants you to know what towns to avoid.

College towns are great if you're a college student. They're not so great if you're just a local who lives there.

I was once a local who lived in such a town, born and raised. It's great when tens of thousands of people under the age of 25 congregate in one location and spend the next four years devaluing local property values. Shirtless, listening to Linkin Park on 40,000 watt speakers at 2am, where every weeknight becomes Keg Stand Night--all because mom and dad begged them to attend college somewhere 2,000 miles away.

Yeah. College towns are precious when you're a local. Downright dreamy.

So, good news! Travel & Leisure has a list of the "best" college towns--from Oxford, MS, to Burlington, VT--where I can only surmise the locals sob quietly to themselves whenever September rolls around.