Live close to uni - Move out or not?

Move out. It's worth the money.

I've now come back home after living independently in Birmingham for 3 years and I don't feel as grown up anymore.
 
I'd say you get the greatest benefit from moving out if you do it for your first year and stay in halls, as you appear to be well past that point and have made your friends already then I'm less certain about the benefits from that point of view. If you want a bit more freedom and to be closer to uni then it is still worthwhile but your case is a bit different to most.
 
i lived in halls yrs 1 and 2, and at home in yr 3. (lived about an hours commute from uni)
omg - going back to so many restrictions was stifling - if you are going to be living at home after graduation i would recommend you stay at home, it will be worse to come back to it after a year of freedom! (i moved out again as soon as my the third semester finished!)

its your 3rd (and final?) yr - surely the degree you come out with is more important than getting to go out a couple more times a week?
 
The experience of meeting and living with new people, fending for and looking after yourself and taking responsibility for your own day to day welfare are not managed by staying at your parents' house. Fair play to those who choose this option but I dread to think what I would have become if I'd lived at home for 4 years instead of living in various flats. Richer, probably, but also less rounded as a person.

Anyway, the OP will only get one of two responses. Stay at home (I did it and it's the best way!) or move out immediately (I did it and it's the best way) ;)

Make your own decision for your own reasons.
 
Move out :).

One of my mates at uni lived in the town and went to the uni there and although he never admitted it, it always felt like he was missing out bits even though he only lived 15 minutes away.
 
EDIT - after reading ALL your post.

Move out. You will regret it if you dont.

Just dont go insane and fail your final year!
 
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Should have moved out sooner if you ask me(im assuming that you have lived at uni throughout). As has been said, Uni is more about the experience than the qualification in my opinion. Move out for your last year and you wont regret it.
 
Here we go then I live 14 miles away from uni :D and I live at uni! why because i think its more fun, freedom and more enjoyable ok you have the extra cost but your (just for benm) only there once! Live it up a bit. :) I don't regret what i did at all. Money comes and goes mate but you'll probably only ever have this chance once....

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I lived in Halls in my first year, rented a house with my gf and some mates in the second year and now I'm back with my parents for my third year cuz I passed my driving test last year and it's easier and cheaper for me to drive in. I was also supposed to be saving rent money towards doing a Masters after I finish my degree but I might have changed my mind about that now.

My parents are easy going though and let me do just about anything so I don't feel like I have any less freedom living away than I do at home. Especially since I can drive off to wherever I want to. I had a lot of fun in my first year in Halls, and I do miss it sometimes, but it honestly doesn't bother me. It depends how well you get on with your parents I think! :D
 
I'd say move out, i live about 15 mins bus or car journey away from uni (it takes MUCH longer to walk) and i stay at home. I do feel like i miss out on a lot. But like you say it would be financially stupid for me to move out to a flat 10 mins away from my house.
Luckily my parents are very liberal and as long as i do my share of the house work they feed and house me for free. I can come and go as i please and i do like it but the feeling i'm missing out is getting bigger.
 
If it was your first or second year I'd say move out - an hour a day each way is too much travelling and will encourage you to skip lectures. Are you really going to do 2 hours of driving every day for a 1 hour seminar? You think you will but you wont. Plus an hour away from Uni would destroy your social life - you wouldn't have one.

I live at home for Uni and its great, despite what Kreeee thinks (I do love it when people I've never heard of think they know me becuase of what is posted on the internet), but I live only 5 miles from Uni - so it doesnt take long to get here and it's easily close enough to enjoy the social scene and have plenty of nights out. However with you being an hour away I dont think it would be the same at all.

But... final year. Everyone thinks its going to be like 1st and 2nd but it just isn't - the social events are reduced and people are less likely to be bothered about going out just becuase your workload is that much higher and it matters that much more. I went on nights out probably 3 times a week in the 2nd year, I dont go out as much as that now its final year. So its arguable whether the social side of things is worth moving for given it probably wont be as good as it is now anyway, wherever you live.
 
Move out, only people who have done can tell you weather its worth it or not, because only they will have experienced it, and 99% of them will tell you its well worth it.

I know plenty of people who stayed at home for Uni and protest that things are exactly the same, little do they know.

This is coming from a guy who moved out further away from campus by about 10 minutes compared to moving closer to uni, and who's parents are the most liberal I have ever met.
 
Although I'm doing AS Levels.. I'd say move out.

I personally want to move out when I go to uni just for the whole experiance of it, and as much as I like home, I'm really looking forward to when I can move out :)
 
Thing is wild unless he has mates to move in with it will be crap - my girlfriend lives in halls and is having a terrible time becuase at all hours there are idiots running up and down corridors. We were woken at 5am this morning by somebody banging on the door shouting at the person in the room next door.

That sort of stuff is fine in the 1st year when youve probably only just rolled in from a party at 5am but in your final year when youve got loads to do not being able to sleep becuase of the selfishness of your typical Moron is hardly cricket.

If you can move in with a decent bunch of people then its great but IMHO there is nothing more crap than living with random morons.
 
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Thing is wild unless he has mates to move in with it will be crap - my girlfriend lives in halls and is having a terrible time becuase at all hours there are idiots running up and down corridors. We were woken at 5am this morning by somebody banging on the door shouting at the person in the room next door.

That sort of stuff is fine in the 1st year when youve probably only just rolled in from a party at 5am but in your final year when youve got loads to do not being able to sleep becuase of the selfishness of your typical Moron is hardly cricket.

If you can move in with a decent bunch of people then its great but IMHO there is nothing more crap than living with random morons.
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