i have a friend in lakeside who is the single biggest piss-head i know at warwick, and thats saying something. I've been over to his a fair few times for 'parties', the first of which was ok, and every one since never happened. It really is dead, I've never seen anyone around there except that once in the first term, and although my mate likes it well enough, he hates how anti-social it is.
So you could live there and just go out, but its nice to have parties in your hall too...