One Miramar Street Apartments

Good value housing

OMS is a great place to live due to proximity of UCSD campus and access to other housing communities. Students with families may find it difficult to manage living cost due to rent hike applied in January 2022. Still more affordable option compared to equivalent off-campus housing.

Overall great experience living here. The walls are quite thick so talking normally and working doesn't disturb your roommate especially when in your own bedrooms with the doors closed. Since I'm in building 2, my apartment faces the freeway which has a lot of white noise, but I generally prefer it that way. I generally get a lot of sunlight in the late afternoon. The place does look a little old but that is to be expected with the age of the apartment and also the price of the rent. You are also allowed to have up to 2 cats so that's always a plus. Only downside is that if you submit a maintenance request, they might not notify you of time of entry.

My room is near the highway roads, so it is noisy during daytimes, you can still hear it even you close the windows. But in the nights, the situations would be better.
OMS is old compared to MN, NE, NW, we don't have a gym or pool, so I need to go to other apartment's gym. The furnitures inside seems good though, and if there is a problem, the GFH would fix it quickly.

It’s not very bustling, tends to be v quiet but is inside campus

Hey whoever is reading this, I am sure you are very interested in knowing how housing is. One thing, don't expect it to be a home, it is what you make it to be. When I moved in, I had unrealistic expectations, but later I realized its not the space I am living in, but the space I make it to be. If you are an international student, bring your spices, some food supplies, basic house and kitchen amenities with yourself or mail them earlier than your arrival. You will have a bathroom, a fridge, kitchen space, water (Drinking and washing), internet (you have to set it up or your apartmentmate might do it for you) and electricity after your arrival. You will be given an empty room, try to make it as homely as possible for yourself, because you would be living in it for a long time. If sharing your room, and if you are thinking of having a closet, bed frame etc, make sure it does not occupy a lot of space because you would need to fit in a table for yourself for study and also give your roommate enough space. Staff and Management is nice, you would be seeing families and some pets. Be nice to people and help them if they ask you to.

It is a great place to be wherein the apartments feel like home.

Plenty spaces, quiet neighborhood. Style is quite different from other grad housing, though, less like a student housing but more like an apartment neighborhood for me.
No air conditioner, not allowed to have one. Public washing machine. Fridge provided, also oven.

good location and condition

Basically good