congrats on going to temple, its a good school, and they have a lot of awesome people that teach and work there. That being said, the area around the health science campus there blows. I did a brief stay at temple in the ot program, and my family is from philly. From my experiences there, most people who go to the school live either down town, off of city ave, maneyunk, or chestnut hill. there is some housing down on the main campus but i had some friends that lived there and its pretty crappy. housing down town is pretty cheap when compared to other major east coast cities. I had a buddy who lived in a hot one bed room in old city for like 700. Parking sucks down town though. Alot of people i knew at temple lived off city ave. its like a 15 -20 min commute to the school and if you live in the presidental apartment buildings there is a bus that will take you straight to campus so you don't have to park in the hood or pay the outrageous paking fees. city ave is cool cause its pretty nice , its safe, st. joe's and villanova are fairly close, there are good supermarkets around and decent places to eat. maneyunk (don't know if i'm spelling it right) is an awesome area to a bit to busy if your going to be a dedicated student, but there are tons of cool and cheap places to live there, loads of restaurants and places to hang out. a lot of twenty somethings and college kids out there. I don't know much about chestnut hill but i had some friends that lived out there and they like it too its about 25 mins out. basically just be prepared to commute. public trans is nasty and after dark its not very intelligent to walk to or take L at either of the two stops near the campus.
