Well to me it is still far 3 hours!.... I mean its about 1 hour to go to Nottingham Trent from where I live, which is in Walsall.
Yeah I go past Nottingham Trent on the way to Lincoln (when driving there anyway)
3 hours isn't too bad, one of the guys I used to live with was from Cornwall, so it's like 10 hours for him.
Depends whether Lincoln offers the best choice in regards to course/uni/location etc
^^ For me, it did, so the fact that it was 3 hours away didn't matter to me. One of my other choices (Aberystwyth) is the same distance away, the nearest one was Derby.