Map of Kingston with regions shaded blue, red, purple, green, and yellow.
Legend:
Blue - Student Ghetto (mostly undergrads)
Red - East of Campus / Syndenham / Waterfront Area
Purple - Downtown
Green - North of Princess (NOP)
Yellow - West of Campus
| Area | Pro | Con |
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Downtown Kingston (Purple) |
- Close to lots of shops and restaurants - Housing: mostly store-top apartments. Some are very new and beautifully renovated, others are smaller and much older. - Close to groceries - Close to medical building |
- Rent: expensive, mostly high end rentals for young professionals. However, many are able to find affordable apartments here. - Noise: depending on how close you are to Princess St. Side streets or smaller major streets can be fine (Brock, Johnson, King) |
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East Campus/Sydenham /Waterfront Area (Red) |
- Oldest and most beautiful houses in Kingston, this is 'old Kingston' - Safe, mostly families and young professionals. - Quiet. - Very close to Med Building and Hospitals. |
- Expensive - Housing: You can get gorgeous apartments, but some very small and old ones too. |
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North of Princess/Skeleton Park (Green) |
- Rent: Cheap - Most diverse neighbourhood in terms of economics (low income, profs, students, families) - Quiet - Housing: decent, you can find good and bad |
- 15-20 min walk to campus - Some believe it to be the most "unsafe," but many students have lived here without any problems |
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Student Housing/Undergraduate Neighbourhood (Blue) |
- Close to campus - Safe (all students, lots of parties) - Rent: not cheap but not super pricey either - Groceries at Princess and Barrie |
- Some places can be in very old and bad conditions - Landlord are notoriously bad here - Noisiest neighbourhood (undergrad parties) - Queen’s “Student Ghetto” |
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West Campus (Yellow) |
- Nicer family neighbourhoods, fewer students the further you go. - Very quiet, pretty, safe |
- Close to Union St. bus line, so you can get to campus easily. Otherwise it is a 20+ min walk and it is quite far - Rent: a bit expensive, but you will probably have a pretty nice place. |