iowa city is an easy place to live: no traffic (except football saturdays and for big bball games near the stadiums), people are so friendly, basically everything your typical college town contains - i'd call it a small major college town, so like the whole city (iowa city + coralville) is about the university, all 4 seasons - fall with brown leaves and good big ten football, snow and cold winters, nice springs, and then humid summer, good mix of bars and clubs (nothing too big/grand, but it has what you'll need i'm sure), a big mall nearby in coralville and a smaller one in downtown IC...if you want city life, chitown is like 3 hours away and des moines (my hometown) 1.5 hours (not a city per se, but you know...) The main draw to me is how easy life is: the schedule at iowa is so "easy" compared to other schools where you have to drive 40 minutes through traffic to get to the major hospital...here, everything you need is located right next to each other, and the schedule isn't as brutal as other schools which think of training med students as more of a "medical boot camp"...hope this helps - if you have any other questions, don't hesitate to ask
...where are you from again scarlett?
