Should I live at home or in uni halls?

but as im so local will i get in halls?

You'll have more fun if you live at uni.

You'll probably find it a lot easier if you just move out. Not only will you gain more independance this way but also you'll probably get really worn out by travelling an hour each way when you need to go in. My friend is in a similar situation and sometimes she gets home, too exhausted to do any work so she gets behind sometimes. Or you'll finish your day at university, fully prepared to get on with your work when you get home but by the time you get there, you're no longer in the mood to work so you leave it.

I have the choice of either living at Uni or traveling an hour a day each way to Uni by train but living at home. Which option do you think would be the best for me?

Feel free to ask for more info if you need it.

I stayed at home.. It was the best decision for me. I didn't get a student loan as I worked loads and had no costs at home ( I understand that with the fees now some loan is inevitable).
With the money I saved I went abroad twice a year, kept a car on the road and saved enough to pay for my MA. I still made mates at Uni and through my work places (some of whom I went abroad with).

If you're a social person you'll make friends and enjoy the Uni nights out either way.


What Uni are you off to?

Haven't completely decided yet though, simply because it may be a difference of 7 or 8 thousand just for 1 year, which is almost as much as the fees :/ I don't know either in short haha

It won't be that much, because
- accommodation isn't anywhere near that much - I only pay £3600 per year, for instance, and that includes all bills.
- you'd have to pay for food, clothes and other living costs wherever you were living (or at least, your parents would), so you can't really count that towards the costs of living away from home
- the amount of money you spend on travelling to/from uni every day will offset many of the savings that you make on not paying rent - in some cases, it will actually cost you more to travel in than it would just to live there.

yes, however, to start with the accommodation costs for my UNI that I'm looking at are around 5k (the min is about 4.25 or 4.5k) and then theres an insane amount I could get per week from the government if i stayed at home given parental income. It adds up to around 7-8k :/

You realise that you actually get more money if you're living away from the parental home?

IMHO the cheapest accommodation is invariably fine - catered is worse than self catered, and en suite is a bit of a waste of money. And there is more to life than saving money anyway - for me, spending money on halls has most definitely been worth it.

How much will it cost you to get into uni every day?

I'm not talking about the student loan I'll get for living away from home rather than at home, this is something else, money just given to me I won't have to pay back. It's some kind of child benefit scheme which you can continue getting at University, so long as you stay at home, silly if you ask me but does make my choice difficult :/

Its not as if i've chosen something top of the range, pretty much the cheapest my UNI do is £110 per week and mine is about £117 per week, its just it works out at quite a bit more than the cheapest cause its self catered and they make you get a longer contract for self catered, plus the very cheapest was sharing. I haven't even gone for the en-suite option :L

I worked this out a while ago but forgotten now :/ But yes, if you include transport costs it will probably go down a bit but its still a hell of a lot of money :/