Downtown Apartment Complexes

[cruitr]

Originally Posted by JKTOMPKINS

Hello my name is Katherine , and me and boyfriend or looking a location in Downtown San Diego, he works for the airlines so he will need to be close to air port or downtown is better, we are looking to move by the Spring of March 2010, do you have some suggestion.

Katherine

What's your rental budget?

[Clevelandgal]

Originally Posted by JKTOMPKINS

Hello my name is Katherine , and me and boyfriend or looking a location in Downtown San Diego, he works for the airlines so he will need to be close to air port or downtown is better, we are looking to move by the Spring of March 2010, do you have some suggestion.

Katherine

Do you mean 2011? Anyway if you are bothered by noise but like proximity to downtown, consider Cortez Hill. It is a downtown neighborhood adjecent to Little Italy, Bankers Hill and downtown core. it is about 8 minutes to the airport (driving) Bus not too terribly far away. We rented a condo there and LOVE it. It is actually pretty quiet. The planes fly just to the north so if you had a north facing unit, you could run into noise possibily. I would say it is never to loud to disrupt conversation. I have never heard rowdy party noises or trains.

There appears to be a variety of price ranges judging from what I see from strolling the neighborhood-simple apartments to uppscale condos. We rented a place without seeing it first in person which is pretty scary, but we could not have done better had we been here.

[PCK]

I think there are many other good areas to live in that are a reasonable commute from downtown and you don't necessarily have to live downtown. Before I moved here I looked at some complexes that were actually condo complexes where they couldn't sell the condos so were renting them out --sorry I can't remember the names of them anymore but they were nice places. Anyway, when walking around downtown at least in the areas where these complexes were, there was a total void of anything nearby and a LOT of homeless people. It was kind of strange, tons of office buildings and tons of homeless people. Maybe if I knew my way around downtown I would've found my way to areas where there were stores, bars, restaurants etc but it seemed like there was nothing like that nearby....
If I were you I would look in Hillcrest or Mission Valley. Also if you have 2 cars, a lot of the places downtown only give you 1 parking spot.