What is Evanston IL like?

[Anonymous]

I would move there in a hot second if I wasn't tied to DC. Lived there for six years and miss it, lake effect wind and all.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:At Evanston,

women students must deal with the predatory culture. “Survey show that experiences of sexual harassment and violence overwhelmingly affect undergraduate females.”

https://news.medill.northwestern.edu/chicago/on-no...their-role-in-sexual-violence/

First, you're citing data that's almost seven years old (it's from a 2015 survey). Second, the overwhelming effect on UG females you're referencing is compared to graduate males, graduate females and UG males on campus. It has no relation whatsoever to overall rates of harassment and violence.

Second, you missed the whole point of that article which is that the University's Men Against Rape and Sexual Assault group is working to raise awareness and change the statistics.

https://news.medill.northwestern.edu/chicago/on-northwesterns-campus-men-addressing-their-role-in-sexual-violence/

FWIW, I liked Evanston. I know nothing about Bethesda, and have seen only limited parts of College Park (mostly areas immediately adjacent to UMD) but the area of Evanston around NU is much nicer, IMO. And I never felt unsafe during the two years I was there.

Any time a university needs “Men Against Rape and Sexual Assault group“, you are off on the wrong foot. Why the hell does a university need a group like this? And no, it’s not old news:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2021/10/01/education/fraternities-rape-sexual-assault.amp.html

Uh, that's a nation-wide organization with chapters/affiliates/similar groups on campuses all across the country. You utter loser.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I would move there in a hot second if I wasn't tied to DC. Lived there for six years and miss it, lake effect wind and all.

We also had members of the general public in some to the NU choirs. Boy I miss choir at NU. It was so much fun (I was not a music major).

[Anonymous]

Idyllic.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:At Evanston,

women students must deal with the predatory culture. “Survey show that experiences of sexual harassment and violence overwhelmingly affect undergraduate females.”

https://news.medill.northwestern.edu/chicago/on-no...their-role-in-sexual-violence/

First, you're citing data that's almost seven years old (it's from a 2015 survey). Second, the overwhelming effect on UG females you're referencing is compared to graduate males, graduate females and UG males on campus. It has no relation whatsoever to overall rates of harassment and violence.

Second, you missed the whole point of that article which is that the University's Men Against Rape and Sexual Assault group is working to raise awareness and change the statistics.

https://news.medill.northwestern.edu/chicago/on-northwesterns-campus-men-addressing-their-role-in-sexual-violence/

FWIW, I liked Evanston. I know nothing about Bethesda, and have seen only limited parts of College Park (mostly areas immediately adjacent to UMD) but the area of Evanston around NU is much nicer, IMO. And I never felt unsafe during the two years I was there.

Any time a university needs “Men Against Rape and Sexual Assault group“, you are off on the wrong foot. Why the hell does a university need a group like this? And no, it’s not old news:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2021/10/01/education/fraternities-rape-sexual-assault.amp.html

Uh, that's a nation-wide organization with chapters/affiliates/similar groups on campuses all across the country. You utter loser.

Why the hell would winners send their daughters there to get assaulted?

[Anonymous]

It's lovely, the architecture is beautiful, the waterfront is divine. Not that far from downtown Chicago and easy to get to it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Home Alone was not filmed in Evanston- it was filmed in Winnetka. Like complaining Silver Spring to Chevy Chase.

Thank you! People here think all of the north shore is exactly the same!

[Anonymous]

The Bethesda comparison is making me giggle. Evanston is so much ... more. Bethesda is suburban meh compared to Evanston, which is an actual town rather than unincorporated area. It's been in development longer than Bethesda, so the neighborhoods feel like they have roots, they're not filled with postwar builds.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Home Alone was not filmed in Evanston- it was filmed in Winnetka. Like complaining Silver Spring to Chevy Chase.

Thank you! People here think all of the north shore is exactly the same!

And the Bahai Temple is in Wilmette, not Evanston, though not far from Evanston.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Home Alone was not filmed in Evanston- it was filmed in Winnetka. Like complaining Silver Spring to Chevy Chase.

Thank you! People here think all of the north shore is exactly the same!

And the Bahai Temple is in Wilmette, not Evanston, though not far from Evanston.

If you go to NU though they're close enough to campus that we'd walk to the Bahai temple and bike up through the fancy neighborhoods. It's a really nice area.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It is grittier than Bethesda.
I would argue it is farther from Chicago than “downtown” Bethesda is to DC.

Perhaps it is farther because 2.6 mill folks live in Chicago while a little over 700K live in DC....

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The Bethesda comparison is making me giggle. Evanston is so much ... more. Bethesda is suburban meh compared to Evanston, which is an actual town rather than unincorporated area. It's been in development longer than Bethesda, so the neighborhoods feel like they have roots, they're not filled with postwar builds.

I am pretty much a sucker for prewar suburbs....

[Anonymous]

The stretch of suburbs north of Evanston, the North Shore, might possibly be the most immaculate grouping of atmospheric old-money towns outside of the Northeast. Extremely photogenic.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The stretch of suburbs north of Evanston, the North Shore, might possibly be the most immaculate grouping of atmospheric old-money towns outside of the Northeast. Extremely photogenic.

YES. My sister used to live in Wilmette, near the Bahai temple, and those neighborhoods around it are just jaw droppingly beautiful. Feels like you're in a Norman Rockwell painting...

To answer the question though, I wouldn't say Evanston is much like Bethesda. I can't think of anywhere in the DMV that reminds me of Evanston, tbh. It's a lovely town, though. I think I would really enjoy going to college there (if it weren't so damn cold).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It is grittier than Bethesda.
I would argue it is farther from Chicago than “downtown” Bethesda is to DC.

you don't have to "argue" that, because it is a fact. but who cares? downtown Chicago ("the loop") is kinda boring. it's mostly just office buildings and some touristy stuff like millennium park. unless a student has an internship downtown, I don't think college students would have much reason to spend time downtown. the livelier/"young people's" neighborhoods that college students would want to hang out at with cool bars, music venues, restaurants, coffee shops, hangouts, independent bookstores and such are more on the northside- Lincoln park, Lakeview, wrigleyville, etc.