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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]UCLA's Westwood/LA has sunny weather all school year, world class restaurants, Hollywood Hills, an international airport, and is like 6 miles from an ocean.

Ann Arbor is literally 17 degrees right now with blizzard conditions, a deli called Zingermans and a handful of restaurants serving Sysco food on their Main Street, crumbing roads, and Detroit is a half hour away.[/quote]

Both can be excellent for different reasons.[/quote]

I think the problem is that you don't know what a "college town" is. When people talk about a "college town," they're talking about the area immediately surrounding the campus. UCLA's college town is the area of Westwood immediately surrounding the campus, but the beach several miles away, LAX, or Hollywood Hills. Those things are all in the city of Los Angeles, but not in the "college town" surrounding UCLA. Similarly, when people talk about Ann Arbor being a great college town, they're talking about the area immediately surrounding the campus, not the mall several miles away from Ann Arbor or whatever else is in Ann Arbor. [b]They're talking about State Street, University Blvd, Main Street, etc. (it's been a long time, so I hope I'm remembering the streets). What you're really saying is that it's better to go to college in a big city vs. a college town.[/b] That's a reasonable opinion, but stop comparing applies to oranges which is what you're doing.[/quote]

I didn't bring up major city universities, a PP brought up UCLA, something about UCLA students being jealous of Ann Arbor. No UCLA kid is jealous of flyover Ann Arbor, Michigan. As for the bold, if you want to talk about the handful of blocks around campus, what precisely makes them unique, let alone the best and most unique in the U.S.? Right now it's 17 degrees and a blizzard, how fun are those blocks of crumbling streets as we speak? Even overlooking depressing weather, that exact cookie-cutter setup -- pizza, subs, sushi, burgers, bars, gastropubs, bakeries, farmers market -- exists around basically every large top 50 university with a strong endowment. The point I was making is that there are warmer places and far superior restaurants around dozens of other universities -- which really isn't even up for debate. [b]If you're a rich kid and can afford to apply anywhere, why Ann Arbor and not somewhere warm and not in the gloomy Rust Belt?[/b][/quote]

Why don't you ask Christopher Schwarzenegger?

Gloomy Rust Belt.  :roll: [/quote]

Or Sasha Obama[/quote]

Humor, right, because she transferred to USC.[/quote]

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