The price at lupton has gone up to include the internet which you used to have to pay £80 extra for, seems a fair exchange to me.
Bus travel = bus pass or walk it. the walk is not that bad at all, i would do it all the time without a trouble. i even walked to the station.
Lupton is a good place, I would hate to live in the area that monty b and leodis are in and you get to see more of the area living further away. It's not modern, no, but it's up to you and your flatmates to keep the place nice. My fella and I have been very impressed with the place, what's the point in paying loads when you don't need to?
Plus there's always the other fact - if you apply to the over-subscribed ones you will probably end up at lupton anyway. And from what I hear, st. marks is worse than lupton for looking nasty and they don't have internet.