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are you bringing a car or looking into getting one there?

www.heelshousing.com is a UNC housing website that has a roommate board and from browsing it there seem to be a lot of grad students on there, if that helps!

i'm so excited to "meet" someone else moving from NYC to Chapel Hill who can relate! i am incredibly excited about it, but it's going to be a big transition..... good things and bad things about leaving the city..... but besides leaving family and friends i think i am going to have serious seamlessweb withdrawals! i looked into the grad housing and drove by ram village and odum village when i visited... which are both grad housing complexes. i read that a limited number of undergrads can live there but i have to say it felt very dorm-like. also, the odum village complex is older and only half the units have central air (which of course i don't have in ny, but i've heard is essential in chapel hill). they looked not so nice, and are not much cheaper than the nicer apartment complex options in chapel hill.... at least from my impression. i also got the feel that many of the apartment complexes in chapel hill are geared towards undergrads but i found some that i think are more populated with grad students (this is my opinion but i was also told this by current grad students in my department, a friend of a friend who has lived in chapel hill her whole life, and i actually stopped people walking around the complexes when i toured them... i ran into several law, business and dental students). these complexes are more expensive, but worth it for me. they are: southern village, alta springs, and meadownmount. what i liked best about southern village and meadowmount is that they are directly attached to like shopping areas with grocery stores, restaurants, etc.... coming from nyc i didn't want to have to get in my car to go everywhere and appreciated the walking distance to these things. other ones to look into are: notting hill and camden governer's village (but it's not on the bus line). what are you doing about a car? i am assuming you don't have one in the city.... are yo buying/leasing down there?

Thanks so much Marebear! That is really helpful.... and I love tex-mex so I will definitely be sure to check out armadillo grill! What program are you in, if you don't mind my asking? I am heading into the Human Development section of the ed. school..... the Education PhD in Early Childhood Intervention and Literacy.

UNC-Chapel Hill, Human Development and Psychological Studies, PhD!

Thanks for the input. It was a less than 5 minute drive for me from campus when I visited, which I really liked. But maybe I got lucky with no traffic or maybe I just drive too fast because I'm a New Yorker?! If you don't recommend Southern Village could you recommend another place or two to check out? Thanks so much!

THANK YOU SOO MUCH!!! This is so helpful! I really appreciate it!

I am heading to UNC-Chapel Hill and thought I would say hi, especially since I saw mention of places to live! I am moving from NYC so it's a big change. I was down this weekend and stayed in Durham but looked at apartments in Chapel Hill. Anyone have any recommendations for areas to live? I would ideally like to be somewhere where there are many other graduate students so I can meet people!

Thanks so much SLP12! I am moving from NYC so it will be a big change! I was actually there this past weekend looking at apartments. It seems like there are a ton of options but I really liked Southern Village.... do you know anything about those apartments? Any other apartment complexes you recommend I look into? Ideally I want to be on the bus line and close to campus (in Chapel Hill not Carrboro, at least for my first year I think), and I would like to be somewhere where other grad students live so I can meet people!

Anyone else heading to UNC-CH?

me too?! Thanks!

Thanks for the info.... sounds like it was a mass email, which is bad news for me, but congrats again to you! I'll see you the weekend before

Thanks for sharing tauren. Is it an in-person interview or by phone and was the email a mass email from an administrator or from Loeckenhoff? (I ask because I had an informal phone interview with my POI at Cornell but haven't heard anything since)