Why is student satisfaction at Edinburgh so low?

Frankly, I'm not surprised. Many students here are not the happiest with Edinburgh as a place to study. The main reasons are:
(1) Rents are getting more and more expensive each year. If you're looking for someplace to live for less than £400 a month, you're not gonna find it in Edinburgh (unless on the city outskirts, where very very very very few students live if any). Rents for decent places within a reasonable distance from the campus (at least the main campus, idk about King's Buildings) are £420 up. And the cheapest flats come with consistent heating issues - many flats are cold and pretty nasty. That's imho, from what I've found touring other students' flats.
This doesn't count private accommodation, which are high standard but they're bloody expensive. My friend pays more than £700 for a studio because he couldn't find anywhere. The Advice Place or the uni are pretty useless at dealing with accommodation issues.
Plus, the uni is accepting more and more students each year (for the $$$) and so demand grows... and so do prices.
(2) The Main Library is packed most of the time, it's difficult to find empty desks and during the revision period it's packed to the brim. Also, it's always stuffy and hot in there and comfort of studying goes down when it's too warm (e.g. I don't go there much, I just take out books).
(3) Counselling Service is useless. There is much demand for counselling but you have to wait ages for an appointment and once you get it you're limited to 4 sessions, or something like that. You'd have to seek help elsewhere if you need it, and probably pay £££ for it.
(4) First-year accommodation is effing horrible.
(5) From what I've heard from friends, ECA has some terrible tutors and the courses are not very well organised. They always complain about their courses.

I had a pretty terrible time in my first year at Edinburgh, and received no help from my Personal Tutor or the RAs in my student accommodation. I fell into deep anxiety and depression and had to interrupt my studies because I couldn't face another year in the soulless, grey, depressing place that I found Edinburgh to be. Now I'm back here, though, and I'm really enjoying life here - it's true, I have to pay a lot for my rent (£550 a month) but everything comes at a price.
I guess you choose what you can and want to put up with.

As others have mentioned before, as long as you're doing well, it's a great place. However, student support services are absolutely awful. My personal tutor, a system installed to help people academically, has been of absolutely no use to me at all. Counselling services, as has been pointed out, is ****. Had to wait a month for an assessment appointment, am now on a 7 week waiting list to get 4 sessions. It's not their fault that they're underfunded and understaffed, I believe they're doing their best. But the university should cut out all the 'we care for your mental health' talks at the start of term. Maybe you do, but that's a bit useless when you can't actually support your students.

Every single friend of mine, even those doing well and in perfect mental health right now, is constantly complaining about how bad this university is at communication, releasing grades, ... On the other hand, some people are doing incredibly well. Our course programmer is an absolutely incredible, genuinely helpful woman. Some people here do actually care for their students.

That being said, I probably won't regret studying here. Thankfully I'm doing a masters so it's only a year of this. I love the city, I love the friends I've made, I do love my course at times, and at the end I'll be able to say that I've learned a lesson in resilience getting through this on my own - if I don't get a full breakdown before the end of this year, that is.

What's mentioned here is all very grim and doesn't reflect a good image of the university, but how do other universties compare?

What about other unis in Edinburgh? Such as Heriot Watt or Edinburgh Napier? In terms of counselling, tutor support, overcrowding of facilities?

What about other prestigious Scotland unis? Such as Glasgow, St Andrews, or Aberdeen?

They might all be equally as bad, or worse.

What's mentioned here is all very grim and doesn't reflect a good image of the university, but how do other universties compare?

What about other unis in Edinburgh? Such as Heriot Watt or Edinburgh Napier? In terms of counselling, tutor support, overcrowding of facilities?

What about other prestigious Scotland unis? Such as Glasgow, St Andrews, or Aberdeen?

They might all be equally as bad, or worse.

Takes foreign students two yrs to relearn English... even we English have fun. Glasgow? I assume you wish to survive?

It definitely didn't take me two years to get accustomed to the accent.

I’ve been accepted to study law at Edinburgh and am currently trying to decide between here and Glasgow. Would you say law has a high quality of teaching?

From the small number of law students I have spoken to, yes, it's pretty good (postgrad and undergrad)

The Law School at Old College (the nice building with the green lawn in the middle, that's always in promo photos) has also been recently refurbished, and the facilities look pretty good.

Thank you! I’ve been to a few open days but I’ve always been biased towards Glasgow but recently realised I prefer Edinburgh as a city but the reviews of the whole university have been off putting so that really helps

I suppose Glasgow is advantageous in a few other ways too, e.g. offering the LLB in Common Law as well as Scots Law. Difficult choice