<p>Which residences should one avoid and why? I don't know about the bad sides of the residences and would like to know about them. Why are MORE, C4 and others called to be crap? What are the obstacles to live there nicely?</p>
<p>LOL</p>
<p>Well, most residences have some downside. Upper rez has the hill, but I didn’t find it that terrible personally. The thought of climbing was worse than the climb. </p>
<p>MORE houses are, from what I’ve heard, a mixed bag. Because they are typically small in size, the atmosphere in one will change yearly, depending on the personalities who just happen to be placed in each. I’ve heard both great things and not-so-great things about them last year. </p>
<p>I’m not sure why C4 is “called to be crap,” since I’ve never heard C4 called crap once, and I lived in rez. The kids there seem to complain about their limited food choices at the caf, but that’s about it. </p>
<p>The go-to rez for ridicule was Solin, because it’s very much the loner in the playground corner. It’s physically removed, their kids are always late (or really, really early since they just don’t leave campus) to rez events, and most people ranked Solin last, so they think that everyone there is miserable. In reality though, a large number of people chose Solin precisely because it was so removed (space outside the McGill bubble = win), and everyone I’ve talked to/known from there, by a few months in, were fairly happy there, whether they had wanted Solin originally or otherwise.</p>
<p>Sounds motivating for me not to distrust my offer. What’s about the people there? Do really all the second year students leave the rez? Why do they do so?</p>
<p>If you’ll take a look at, oh, the thread about this made a few days ago, you’ll see that I mentioned 95 percent of students leave residence because off-campus housing is roughly 50 percent cheaper (and that’s just the savings on rent, i.e. not including savings earned by buying groceries over caf food.)</p>
<p>I can’t really tell you about the “people.” They change every year. And if there’s any consistency within a residence from year to year it’s mostly because of a “reputation” that is socially constructed and perpetuated by posts on websites such as this. Only exception to this might be size (larger residences tend to be more susceptible to “party” atmospheres, although every rez parties), and the affinity of RVC with Music (since their buildings are connected.)</p>
<p>@HieronymusBosch: can u elaborate on the great and not-so-great things about MORE? Damn, I know um obsessing, but I can’t help it</p>
<p>It’s great if the other people in them are similar or compatible with you, and you get along well with all of them. It’s not-so-great if you find yourself the odd-one-out, where it seems like everyone else is into some things while you’re the polar opposite. It’s very awkward if the whole house is running a pot cookie operation while your drug-free self is upstairs trying to get work done (true story of a friend of a friend.) This problem can also happen in the small-ish Prez and University residences (a friend from prez told me how the ultra-leftist hippie girl really had a rough time fitting in), but MORE’s small size probably exacerbates it. In large residences there’s usually enough people for the less indiscriminately sociable to form a close group of friends.</p>
<p>okay, but apart from the social life, is there anything else I should be worried about? is the coed situation (guys and girls living in a small house) likely to get uncomfortable or “unacceptable to parents”?</p>
<p>^ Probably the wrong question to ask about rez. But no, I don’t think they’re having orgiastic romps every night.</p>
<p>sorry 
i have extreme too-conservative-mum issues, so just wanted everything there to be ok enough for her to feel at ease, and not pack me off before classes start … so aside from the social unease that may or may not arise, MORE residents don’t have much to worry about … it’s just regular dorm with less people to share it with, more or less?</p>
<p>I saw movies about the different halls on YouTube. Well, the creepiness reached a new level. Some of them are dirty as hell and one of them looks like a civil war relict. But new rez looks pretty and not that bad. Douglas and one other are also fine.</p>
<p>What exactly mean by “creepiness” ?</p>
<p>This is UNI accommodation for STUDENTS. Not 5* hotels for a holiday. McGill’s residences (even the worst ones) are incredible compared to many other places, honestly what did you expect?</p>
<p>i hav lived in 3 residences: gardner, new rez, and greenbriar.</p>
<p>if you like partying and do not care about attending lectures: upper rez
if you don’t like people and want to be isolated: solin
if you like to live close to univ and want to cook yourself: greenbriar
if you like to live close to univ and are lazy to cook: rvc
if you like to live in hotel-like environment: new rez</p>
<p>solin is the only rez in the legitimately ‘bad’ place of town. bad is relative of course, compared to what you may see in the US crime-wise</p>