Thank you!
Yes, a small town that's also a college town is a step above the lonely burg on the prairie that has a Casey's convenience store and little else. In my parents' day (1950s), our tiny hometown had a bowling alley, two movie theaters, three grocery stores, a butcher/meat locker, a hatchery, a brick schoolhouse with grades K-12, the elevator, and more, but now it's down to the elevator. The school is empty. This is the fate of so many small towns. Hence, Brain Drain. And increasingly bigger cities, while towns dry up and blow away in the winds of time.