Texas A&M Corpus Christi

[msocean]

Anyone?  I will be attending Fall 2013.  Looking for housing ideas, off campus, away from undergrads, small dog friendly.

[tigereye]

I got my BA from TAMUCC and lived off campus on Ennis Joslin Rd (The Shores apartments), just a few minutes from campus and before that, I lived on Staples near Saratoga (Camden Copper Ridge).  I can't speak for other complexes, but The Shores, while sort of okay, has small apartments with a lot of reported break ins.  Your window is right next to the front door and it's easy to break in.  I put large bookcases in front of them (cutting out light, of course, but with the heat there it wasn't necessarily a bad thing).  I also lived on the 1st floor, which is not always a good thing in that area.  The location of my apartment had a lot of flooding with heavy rains and the step up into my apartment was only an inch or two.  I had to walk from my parking space on the other side of my building (on a sidewalk) through two inches of puddles when the water wouldn't soak into the ground anymore. Keep that kind of stuff in mind.  The apartments on the Ennis Joslin side (there are two locations for this complex - Shores I and Shores II) have carports, one per unit.  There is NO outgoing mailbox on the Shores II side, so you'll have to walk to the main apartment office for that.  You also have to mail things out during the office hours.  This may not be an issue for you if you don't mail things out a lot.  I lived in the ground floor unit here so I heard EVERYTHING from upstairs, and while that is common in apartments, it was especially loud here, and since the walls are thin, noise really carried.

The Camden complex is nicer, has covered parking that you have to pay for if it's available (I chose to get it because I wanted a cooler car when I left mid-day).  I lived in a ground floor and 2nd floor unit in Camden.  The top floor apartments get warmer very fast (obviously) but keep that in mind if you don't want to run your a/c all day, but I did quite a bit.  The heat may not get as bad some days, but the humidity is high and it makes the apartment stuffy.  This was definitely the nicer complex of the two I lived in there, and it is the pricier, too.  I would have moved back to Camden Copper Ridge if I'd stayed there to get my MA, but I left.

If you want to know about other complexes I can see if friends know of any and get details about specific places you're considering.  Or other things around town, though I wasn't much of a partier, so I can't help too much with social scenes/bars/clubs, etc (not that you'll be into that or have time for it).

Check out Catfish Charlie's for killer fried catfish plates and the best jalapeno hushpuppies I have ever had (awesome tartar sauce).  Seriously, I crave those little fried things.