Uni students

no matter how cool your parents are with you doing what you want, they're likely to take exception to you sliding down the stairs on matresses, and holding unplanned post-night parties
 
Move out! First year in halls was okay, but second year renting a house with 7 mates is so much fun! My parents are cool and if pushed I could commute if needed, however living in the countryside with parents or in city with a load of mates is no contest really.

Money wise i'm not that skint even though I run a car. Don't have a job but parents give me £150 a month and with my frugal spending habits it works out fine. All depends on the sort of person you are, for example I will never buy a sandwich or drink (probs £3 a pop) when out but will wait till I get home and make something. Out drinking, if you stick to the cheap nights (usually the busiest anyway) it's good, £1 a pint, £10 all you can drink etc...
 
excaliborg said:
Money wise i'm not that skint even though I run a car. Don't have a job but parents give me £150 a month...
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I take it your parents pay your rent for you too then :p

I have friends that stayed at home for 1st year then moved out in 2nd year, even though they're only 10miles from their parents, they're loving it so much more. University's a much more full experience when you move out and I honestly think you'll enjoy it much more if you keep on top of your finances reasonable well.
 
Serj said:
But i have lived at home :confused:
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I was just mucking around. Nevermind.

Besides, since when have we been able to break down "The University Experience" into arbritary percentage statistics? :p

I never get the feeling Im missing out on much personally. I still have a decent social life at weekends. If anything, I enjoy getting together with friends a lot more at weekends now for a drink and a chat and a laugh in a nic epub somewhere :)
 
It all depends on what kind of person you are really. If your social, know your going to get involved and want to do mad things, have a laugh etc, you HAVE to move out and live in halls.

If your not that kind of person, and all your gona do in halls in be on these forums all day, then its probably not worth the rent!

I would 1000% recommend not living at home, people may say you only miss out on a little, but again, depends on the kind of person you are. If your not the kind to enjoy going out on benders, having a laugh etc, and instead enjoy staying in to read a book or whatever (nothing wrong with it if thats your thing, people are different and its up to you how you enjoy yourself!) then you may only be missing out on 20%, but yeh, if your the kind who DOES enjoy going out a lot etc, DEFINITELY live at uni :)
 
But then the people that are on benders 24/7 for 3 years, end up with a rubbish degree and then moan they can't a decent job....

It's all swings and roundabouts.
 
I'm from Huddersfield and I moved down to Surrey to go to University in September and it's by far the best decision I've ever made! You'll save a hell of a lot of money by staying at home but it's not half as good as living in halls with new mates you have a right laugh.
 
Well worth the 7 hours Train Journey from Durham to Aberystwyth :D At £60 return (with railcard), I rarely head home at weekends, just for holidays. I think that even if I was accepted at Durham Uni, I wouldn't really accept the offer because I really wanted to escape from home and "do my own thing".

Ps. Aber Rocks :D
 
robmiller said:
What kind of absolute numpty gets to 18 and leaves home without knowing how to cook or wash their clothes?

Answer: my flatmates and by my reckoning 99% of university students, but that's a discussion for another day I guess
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I remember having to teach someone how to make a cup of tea/coffee.
 
Yeah my flatmat after 6 months of being here asked me how to use the iron the other day.
 
I moved away from home for my first year of Uni and absolutely hated it. The fact that most students annoy the hell out of me probably didn't help! I came home virtually every weekend and eventually gave up the room I was renting in about March and started to commute (100 miles round trip).

The travelling was a bit of a pain when the weather was bad, but this was much better. I got to see all my old mates again and play for our football team regularly.

My missus had a better time and still sees her old uni mates quite often (they go to each others houses etc.), while I probably wouldn't recognise the people I went to uni with if I passed them in the street.
 
If you can afford it money wise all fine then move out if you want to. If its border line whether you can afford it then live at home, you will have a much easier time with money.

I wouldn't be able to run a car and only work at holidays if my parents didn't pay £5.4k a year towards my uni. If they didn't pay that then I would have most probably lived at home instead. Not worth it getting into debt in my opinion.
 
Move away and enjoy it. :D

There is a big difference in my group of friends from those who stayed at home and went to uni and those who didn't.
 
Serj said:
How do you know that? You've never lived away from home. Anyone who is living at uni has done both.
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Virtually all my friends at Uni live away from home. I've spent the last 2.5 years with them, etc etc. I'm aware of what they experience that I don't - there are things, but they are not that numerous. The figure of missing out 80% of Uni life is hugely inaccurate. I'm certainly not enjoying only 20% of the experience others have!

you'll miss out on all the nights out
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This is absolute rubbish I am afraid :)

People on here seem to have the opinion that if you dont live on Campus, you are doomed to have your entire Uni experience consisting of just attending lectures. This is utter rubbish - I've spent random evenings/nights at student house parties, I was out 3-4 times a night last year (Placement this year), I have plenty of mates at Uni, it's all great.

A large amount of the people who stay at home do so for reasons other than financial - do not think their particular lifestyle is typical of everyone who lives at Home. They probably never go out at night and never have any mates becuase of who they are not becuase of where they live.

One of my friends lived at Uni for her 2nd year but it was awful with the house she was in she went back home half way through. Did her social life implode? Nope. Did she go on less nights out? Nope. Did she lose all her friends? Nope. Was I grateful of the cheap nights out afforded to me by taking her home at 3am on a Saturday morning? Hell yea :p

Maybe it depends on your home life. I've no burning need to 'escape' and 'do my own thing' becuase aside from the obvious no real responsbilities side of thing, I've been doing my own thing and coming and going as I please for years.
 
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