August West, I've went to undergrad and worked in Davis before Vet school, so it has been a while but I've lived in West, North and Central Davis, and like West Davis the most. I live in Le Tournesol apartments -- 2 or 3 bedroom townhouse style, and like the space of these apartments and the management is wonderful-- which is saying a lot in Davis, they are also very flexible about pets and the manager basically says to tell her about the first couple and then just don't mention it but keep things clean-- if it says anything the demo apartment they used last year, the girl had 3 cats, and was fostering a momma cat and 5 kittens when we walked through. They have no restrictions on dog size (my roommate had a great dane mix) or breed, but you were expected to be present or lock up dogs for any repairs. There are dishwashers if that's a big selling point, and unfortunately don't have your own w/d but have coin op on the premises which doesn't get too crowded. It's a pretty quiet complex, with mostly older students or a few families or 20-30s couples, so not bad, also has a nice pool ans spa area. Some of the apartments also decent sized yards.
There's my apartment complex plug. Otherwise I live with a Vet/grad student in a different year and it's really nice that I can run things by her and commiserate about school, but we aren't in class all day together.
And Trying2GetIn , it's not all hell
. But the trade-off would be that I would get to throw some great parties, which sounds 
