Live close to uni - Move out or not?

[FnG]magnolia;11109433 said:
Hell is not other people, Halls are ;) I never did it but it sounds ****** awful. Flat-sharing can be a wonderful experience.
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I agree - it's who you move in with that matters not simply the fact you've moved out.

As I said - if he knows who he will live with, it'll be a MUCH better experience.
 
goldilocks said:
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?
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Yes, of course it is. I would asume that because the net connection is crap I'll get more work done than being at home where I can kick back on the sofa and watch the big screen tv. I won't be able to do that moving out.

I'm not someone who goes out every night of the week. At the moment I go out about twice a month and I don't think once a week is too much seen as I won't have a job and have a lot of time doing nothing so I can use that to study.

The reason I didn't move out in the first year is because I didn't realise how far out of the way it is to pick the other guy up. He adds about 15 mins on to our journey time and peak traffic is hell. I didn't move out in the second year because I wanted to use the money I had saved from my 18th and working to go on holiday. I ended up in Australia and New Zealand I definitely made the correct choice.

I've handed my application form in but can cancel it up to the start of August (lose my deposit).

I don't have my own car atm but can use my mums if I need it for anything important like going to work, shops, etc. I just need to pick her up from work. My parents aren't the most open regards to bringing girls round though. I think they still see me as a kid.

If I'm going direct to uni it only takes about 30 mins for a night out which isn't bad. I just feel cheeky about asking to stay over at mates flat because the taxi home costs so much.

I'd be staying with mates from the course. One or two of the five I'd be staying with don't care if they pass their degree though which is weird.
 
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I would recommend moving out. Before I came up to Uni I really wasn't keen on the idea of living away from home and although I was in halls, I intended to come back home as often as possible.

Having enjoyed my first year, I now live in a house with some friends and I find returning home for the holidays so restricting... it's as if I didn't comprehend the restrictions on my freedom from living at home until I went to Uni. Being able to have spontaneous parties, get in whenever I like and generally live according to my own rules has really allowed me to grow as a person as well as have much more fun.

It definitely varies according to your circumstances... if your parents allow you a lot of freedom at home and you have a solid group of mates there whereas your Uni housemates would be morons, it's obviously not a good idea to move out. But all things being equal, I think living out is an experience you should have.

(edit) I wouldn't worry too much about losing the freedom of your nice house or having to get your own food. I find life in my grotty student house with a group of like-minded people infinitely preferable to living in my nice house with my parents... the experience just doesn't compare. And sooner or later you're gonna end up cooking your own food all the time, so why not start now?
 
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You've got the rest of your life to live away from your parents. May as well make the most of the cost advantages of living at home.
 
Malt_Vinegar said:
Move out - CERTAINLY for the first year.
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Truth.

I'm in the position of the OP. One of the universities I have applied to is very close to my home but I would still move out. If you don't like the experience after the first year, move back :) I don't even have the bother of parents and what not, I'm pretty much independent. I would still move out though.
 
[TW]Fox;11109399 said:
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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The general layout of Halls means that you can get away from everyone if need be and retire to your room for privacy (unless your living in a complete slum and your Uni's halls are a pile of carp) This negates the general terribleness of having to put up with people. This means you can have a good time when you want to, with the people you want to. You make friends damn swiftly in your first year of Uni, and from then the general idea and whole point of halls is to move, with your Uni friends you've made that year, to a house with them, with the people you do get on with.

It doesn't work 100% of the time, some people are not suited to it and can have a miserable time, however the onus is usually on them, and it does work for 99% of university students across Britain and the USA, who are all having a brilliant, partly independent introduction to bits of the real world and real living without being at home with mummy and daddy.
 
Do not make the same mistake I made. I lived at home for 3 of my uni years and I missed out so much fun. I only hope that I could turn back the time so I could move out.

You could say about going out to parties from home etc but it is just not the same at ALL
 
[TW]Fox;11110716 said:
Is there any reason for the personal insults in this thread from people I dont even know, or is it just a bandwagon thing?
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It's very likely they wouldn't have posted if Kreee didn't make his snide little comment. He got the ball rolling so they joined in. Pretty childish really.
 
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