<p>posterX,</p>
<p>i can tell you Evanston (northwestern) is a better college town than Westwood (UCLA). downtown evanston has more stores, restuarants…etc than westwood. evanston downtown has multiple bookstores while i don’t recall seeing one in westwood. when you see bentley, mercedes constantly running through westwood and traffic getting ridiculous there during rush hour because the traffic isn’t moving on wilshire blvd, u know it is more a part of LA, rather than just a college town (technically, westwood is just one of the LA neigborhoods; it’s not a separate town).</p>