<p>Hi, I'm trying to get prepared for housing next year (I'm a first year), and was wondering if anyone could tell me the pros and cons of campus village vs vista del campo?</p>
<p>Well, I was also faced with a similar choice last year and I ended up in VDC and am very happy.</p>
<p>VDC Pros:
A/C
Nice rooms
Nice community center/pool/gym
Cheaper than Norte and CDS
Full beds</p>
<p>VDC Cons:
Crappy cell phone reception
Not the cheapest
Busing to school</p>
<p>CV Pros:
Cheap?
Behind the Science library (about the same walking distance from campus to Mesa Court)</p>
<p>CV Cons:
Looks run down
Small rooms and old furniture</p>
<p>If you get VDC then I would just go with that. Parking kinda sucks but other than that the pros outweigh the cons, IMO.</p>
<p>I lived in both before.</p>
<p>VDC was a nightmare if you had no car because of 8 AM lab at the same time as an 8 AM mandatory class, so you had to get up at 6 to get ready and catch the bus.</p>
<p>The living conditions are better, however. Single room. QUIET. NO CONSTRUCTION.</p>
<p>CV is better for those without cars since its so close to bio/chem buildings you don’t feel as ****ed off doing experiments since you can just go home and sleep when you’re done.</p>
<p>CV has worse living conditions though; 4 people per dorm, 1 bathroom, very bad if everyone has 8 AM labs… and if you had a pig for a roommate you were doomed. There was heavy construction outside my window every day at 3AM.</p>
<p>So it depends on your major; science/engineering may find CV more tolerable (the construction noise helped keep me awake to write lab reports and making endless excel charts), social sciences majors may find the relaxing climate of VDC better suited for writing.</p>
<p>Forgot to mentioned:
VDC:<br>
Pro
Close to the ARC
Pool and jaccuzzi
Nice basketball court
Really close to other housings like AV, VDCN, CDS find walking tolerable to hangout with firends
Single bed that includes locked doors
Party
Con:
Far away from UTC, unless you drive.
Shuttle to Albertsons
Far from Campus
Far from everywhere.
Note these cons can be blocked off if you have a car</p>
<p>CV:
Pros
More hours to snooze
I would say furniture isnt that bad
Easy to maintain cleaning (if you have the 3 ppl)
Less competitive for housing
gas stoves (VDC uses electric fyi)</p>
<p>Cons:
descreet party?
not that great looking on the outsite
small kitchen
your double rooms cannot be locked
distracting roommates?</p>