Misguided you are....
- MASSIVE rooms (yes, you could fit 6-8 first year rooms inside my old one)
- erm

, free bar. For 3.5 years.
- A new batch of innocent (and not so innocent) freshers every year...
- The chance to get to know people across 3/4 years, not just yours.
- F*cking good social life as JCR. Do it properly and it's like being an 18-30 club rep at times, especially f/week. Plan and run the hall ball (ie blow £15k+ on a night you organised) and live in the middle of Stoke Bishop (ie 2000+ students).
- No cooking and cleaning needed.
- No bills/no arguments/no hassle whatsoever.
- Cheaper
- And given that all the above is NOT a the cost mates outside halls/other stuff...
...it's the 'wannabe cool' that can't wait to move out and never realise what they missed. But those are the crowd that would NEVER stay in halls any longer than a year, no matter the benefits.
Horses for courses. 95% can't understand why the hell we stayed on. We can't see why the hell they left. The reason ppl hang around is practically never because they couldnt have moved out.
4 years churchill, 3 years holmes. I would KILL to be back there now.