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I have noticed Ali has put a blog up regarding where to live on placement and so I thought I should centre my blog around this. Like I have mentioned a few times in earlier blogs, I’m living with mates who are still students, which Ali hasn’t written up on really so here is some first hand expert advise. Firstly the people I am living with are in their 3rd year which I think is beneficial as they are spending most of the time doing essays and their dissertations so not much time to be drunken yobs.

Student accommodation as we all know isn’t overly expensive if you live in the right place and so isn’t going to eat up all your wages, I’m currently paying about ¼ of what I earn, which isn’t too bad. However that is in Sheffield and I do not know how rates compare in other parts of the country.

Thankfully the guys I’m living with this year aren’t too loud or rowdy so I knew it would be too bad living with them. In freshers week they did manage to get me out a couple of times to a foam party and places but it’s all part of the fun, you know what they say about all work and no play!! I can see the end of their Uni lives being pretty drunken too given they are finishing for good, so I may get dragged out a few times then too!!

Basically I reckon it’s not a bad idea to live with your student mates as long as you know they aren’t too yobbish and they wont make you get the sack, just be sensible really. I reckon looking back that in order of where I would live it would have:

    1.  Living with other placement students.

    2.  Living with Uni mates.

    3.  Living at home.

I would put them in this order basically because with other placement students, you are all still students at heart so can have a good laugh with them and go out and socialise, but on the other hand you can also get each other up out of bed and share lifts to work and stuff so would have the best of both worlds (Although you might get sick of seeing them 24/7). 

Living with students’ yeah, good fun but not always easy to get up out of bed in the mornings although if they aren’t too noisy then it isn’t too bad, you just have to resist going on nights out every now and then. Living at home would definitely come last, you would get bored I think of waking up early every day, going home and not socialising. This is an option for the more money conscious of us such as Ben Duffy. If you want to know more about living at home ask him.

Hope this helps!!