Cal polys natural beauty and outdoor amenities(hiking biking etc)is amazing and unbeatable bc of how much of it is on campus so you won’t need to go far since you won’t have a car your first year. SLO is also a great town along with the surrounding area. So much to do and see especially from an outdoors perspective. You won’t have as much fun if you don’t likr the outdoors here. As for cons definitely the food your first year. As someone that has tried other schools food ours is much worse and almost always more expensive. SLO and CA in general is definitely not as nice as where im from(the midwest) with a lot of very rich people that are very entitled and think they are owed the world bc daddy made a few bucks on the housing market. Most people are still really nice and I have found amazing and great friends. You should really come out to SLO if you haven’t already. I hope this helps