UCLA vs. UW...help!

Sam_Lee
Mon, 13 Apr 2009 16:37:23 +0000

Seattle is a great city with a high quality of life, but if you want endless urban opportunities like ethnic food, tremendous diversity, large arts community and museums, Seattle is like living in Indianapolis compared to LA (no offense to Indy).

That’s not necessarily true for students without cars. If you don’t have a car, LA becomes a gigantic system of suburbs. Yes, the “opportunities” are significantly more but over a much larger area and are practically out of reach without a car since you are not going to spend 90 mins on public transit just to go to, say, the Little Tokyo from Westwood. I used to live in West Holywood and I would have to drive about 45-mins (about 25 miles) to go to areas like Alhambra for authentic Chinese food. Now, if I were at UDubb, I could walk to the International district for authentic Chinese food. Sure, once you are in Alhambra, there are many more restaurants available (still keep your car though…lol) as opposed to just a few in the international district in Seattle; but it takes a lot of effort to get them in LA (driving 45 min-1hr just to get a particular kind of food sounds ridiculous to a lot of people).