Commuting from Bristol to Cardiff- doable??

why do you want to live at home??????????????????????????????

well... look at it this way...

If you live on campus, you are going to be living with housemates, some of whom are very likely to end up being friends
You'll join societies and make friends
You'll go out at night with coursemates and make friends

If you live the other side of the severn you'll not want to go out at night and then drive back
You wont go to society trips and socials and have to drive home
You'll be living with your parents so will miss out on the freedom and friend-making oppotunities

And bear in mind that if you carry on living with your parents now its gonna make it even harder to fly the nest when that time eventually comes. Unless you plan on staying at home forever!

Also, some days you might only have one hour or two hours of lectures (uni timetables have these wonderful quirks) or lectures at 9am, and 5pm with nothing in between. Are you going to travel all the way to cardiff for those? Or are you going to miss lectures because it really isnt worth a 2 hour round trip for an hour lecture. What about lectures at each end of the day? you wont have a house on campus to go back to so you'll be sitting in the library bored all day.

At that distance, yes. My sis is at Cardiff and knows people who live at home, but they actually live IN Cardiff so it doesn't matter! I also knew people at Exeter who lived at home, but they lived in Exeter...

If this is for friends or a boyfriend, don't bother. They'll form new lives and you will too - while still keeping involved with each other.

It will be a lot harder to have that same uni experience but not impossible.There was a recent thread on this in GUD.

But would Car parking be an issue? From what I've seen of the university there are more spaces than many unis and I'm assuming parking is free for students?

Lots of parking around the uni, its all metered, and I've never heard about it being free for students.

I knew there was plenty of parking. It's just I thought Cardiff may offer students a free parking badge in any uni car parks?

We regret that, due to limited capacity, there is no provision for student parking, with the exception of students with disabilities, whose needs will be met wherever possible, and a limited number of permits available to residential students at selected Halls of Residence.