Looking for apartment near Hilcrest medical center (San Diego, Mission Hills: rentals, condominiums)

[Ple bangkok]

I am going to take a course at Hilcrest Medical center for 1 year around this July. I am a woman from Asia . Please recommend the resident near the center where is close to another facilities like fitness center, park, shopping mall , recreation area . I will not drive . My budget is about 1000- 1200 US per month . Anyway I have to get the exercise for my health ,so please recommend the place for exercise in Hilcrest .
I am apologized if my question is like the others ,but I really have no idea about living in USA.
.
Thank you

[kettlepot]

All right, providing my picture attachment worked. Here is the advice I can offer.

The Red circle is where the UCSD Hillcrest hospital is located and is where I guess you will be studying. The purple ellipses are 2 residential areas where you could comfortably live and walk to UCSD. Unfortunately, there are a lot of medical offices in this area, and not many residential options. This makes the area expensive to live. I doubt you will find something in your price range. But if you do, this would be a good location to live. Perhaps you could find a roommate. This area is called Hillcrest, or sometimes the Medical Complex area.

The yellow ellipse yellow ellipse directly below that area, is mostly commercial. This is the area where you will spend time when you are not studying. There might be some residential options there mixed in with the commercial, but I wouldn't count on it.

If these options don't work, you will need to either take a bus to the hospital or perhaps buy a bicycle.

The Black line is Bus Route 3. It goes directly to the hospital.
http://www.sdmts.com/RouteFiles/routes/pdf/3.pdf
You could live anywhere in the Green ellipse directly below the Yellow Ellipse, and have a quick bus ride to UCSD Hillcrest. However, could you find something you could afford? This area is known as Bankers Hill and/or Park West. Perhaps you could find a room share within your price range. Housing can be very nice newly built high-rise condominiums, or 100 year old apartment buildings, and anything in between.

The Green circles on the top right and left of the page are also possible options. These bus routes:
the Blue Line Route 83
http://www.sdmts.com/RouteFiles/images/maps/view/83.gif

and the Pink Line Route 1
http://www.sdmts.com/RouteFiles/images/maps/view/1.gif

won't take you completely to the hospital and you will have several blocks to walk (or bicycle, or roller skate) to complete your journey to UCSD. However, these bus routes will allow you to live farther away from the hospital, and the farther away you are the less expensive it will be.

Of course once you commit yourself to taking the bus to the hospital, then you can live even further away from the hospital. In particular, you could move beyond the top right hand corner of the map into University Heights. It is a comfortable, safe, but more affordable area.

Or you could move to the bottom, left portion of the map, along the blue line that is the Route 83 bus. This is sometimes known as Middletown, or South Mission Hills. However, the shopping options aren't particularly good there.

The best combination of easily getting to school, and being able to shop for food, are the two purple areas, or the top right and the top left green ellipses. Beyond that, try the top right hand corner off the map along the Route 1 bus line in University Heights.

Many people look for places to rent on Craigslist.com. Go to Craigslist San Diego. Go to apartment housing rentals. Put in your search parameters with some of the neighborhoods I have recommended. See what comes up. If you find one you are particularly interested in, come back to the board and as us about it. We may have more specific recommendations when you have selected several for review.

For the other city-data members, please show me some love. I've put a lot of effort into a helping someone who can only give me one point of reputation. I need some outside validation.

I wish I knew how to put big pictures into a message. If someone can help me out on that, I'll repost my map as a big picture.

[oddstray]

Here's the "how to" for pictures in posts:

http://www.city-data.com/forum/faq/8...ing-posts.html

[kettlepot]

Originally Posted by oddstray

Here's the "how to" for pictures in posts:

http://www.city-data.com/forum/faq/8...ing-posts.html

Thanks, Oddstray. That actually was the list of instructions I was following. Unfortunately, the Manage Attachments box I get doesn't contain a list called "Current Attachments". So those instructions don't work for me. I suspect either something has changed since 2007, or a step is missing.

[oddstray]

Originally Posted by kettlepot

Thanks, Oddstray. That actually was the list of instructions I was following. Unfortunately, the Manage Attachments box I get doesn't contain a list called "Current Attachments". So those instructions don't work for me. I suspect either something has changed since 2007, or a step is missing.

This is the one that the travel forum provided last October for the travel photos. If you're having trouble with it, you might want to ask in the 'Administration Zone' forum.

This is a test: http://www.city-data.com/forum/membe...ite-horse.html

That's a photo that I uploaded to an album (under my user settings). I just went to that image in a different browser window, and copied the URL. It shows up here as a link, but the link does go to the image in my album. Maybe you can do it that way.