marcomr

As a UCSD student with a car, I actually wish I didn't have one. La Jolla is pretty dense and there's literally everything you could possibly need here (beach, great mall, restaurants, bard, ALL kinds of grocery stores incl. trader joe's and whole foods). My first quarter I made the mistake of living in Hillcrest which is one of the more trendy neighborhoods closer to downtown but the commute was awful and I ended up spending the overwhelming majority of my waking time at school anyway, so I ended up moving to La Jolla. Now most of the time I go to "proper" San Diego it's mostly to hit the bars in North Park/Little Italy/Downtown so I just end up taking a lyft anyway. Plus, as someone mentioned already they're currently building a light rail extension which will have two stops on campus and will take you directly to Little Italy, Downtown, and all the way down to the San Ysidro port of entry from where you can walk into Mexico (and ubering in Tijuana is super cheap). So, I would rather save all the money from car payments, insurance, and on-campus parking ($61 for undergrads, $81 for grads) and just use lyft/uber whenever public transit is not a great option. Granted in order to pull this off you should live in LJ, where a bus ride should take less than 15 minutes to campus.