Did Corpus. Overall I would go back again in a heartbeat. Variety is the spice of life and it's great on the great Mexican food they have down there. In my case pretty much all the guys who went to Corpus finished primary faster than the North Field guys.
Pros:
-Texas
-Living life on Padre Island, you live where people vacation and you're 20 minutes from work and 2 minutes from the beach
-Driving on the beach, windsurfing, best fishing ever and German Bakery
-If you're single with no dependents, it's a great way to make some money off of the move
-You might get lucky and get to go on det to lovely Laughlin, NV
-You get a change of pace (no pun intended) away from Pensacola because who seriously wants to drive up that hill to Whiting everyday
-Navy Corpus is a real airfield with Homeland Security, Drones, the Army Helicopter Depot, etc.
-If you're a Marine you're near MATSG-22 (not an hour away so working with admin is a breeze) and the current CO does a lot for you (cool events, guest speakers, networks you with successful students, preps you for primary and advanced, pretty cool stash jobs, etc.)
-The on base USO feeds you lunch weekly and gives you free stuff.
-If you're a Marine and you go 'Spreys you get a ton of Per Diem money when you go to Whiting for intermediate.
-You're close to Austin and San Antonio
-There's a Chipotle and a Freebirds in town
-The Dirty Bird is a fine drinking establishment that should be made a national landmark
Cons:
-There are some personnel down in Corpus that I think the Navy forgot about when they should be retired (forcefully)
-There's only like two decent bars (but apparently they opened a Schlitterbahn waterpark that's pretty dope)
-Not a lot of quality wife material (which is why the smart people go to Austin and San Antonio monthly)
-The T6s don't have fancy overhead cover so in the summer it get's pretty warm on startup.
-Flight ops were hit and very miss. Averaged three briefs per flight due to wx, aircraft availability, or the instructor didn't want to go.
-The Dirty Bird is a vile drinking institution that should be burned to the ground
If I could do it all over I would have lived on Perdido for API instead of outside the back gate, lived on North Padre on a canal like I did for Primary (but I would have bought a fishing kayak and caught my dinner every night), and selected helicopters and live as close as possible to South Whiting. If you decide to go to North Whiting, I would live on Perdido for API and then buy a house up near Milton and get roommates to pay the mortgage, then go helicopters (because you're not gonna not) stay in your house and profit, then move away and rent the place out to impressionable flight students.