Wherever I lay my hat (Accommodation in general)

Member Name: DancingMatt

Product:	Accommodation in general
Date:	09/06/01 (372 review reads)
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Advantages: Beautiful city, Reasonable public transport, Plenty of facilities

Disadvantages: Expensive

This is meant to be Accommodation in general, well I've lived all over Bristol! So I'll share with you what bits of town were like when I was in town. Ready? All aboard:

Goldney Hall of Residence, 1994/95/96.
Beautiful place. I'll give a proper review of it in the Specific Halls bit. Really nice rooms, beautiful location (in the 19th Century grounds of Goldney Manor with interesting statues and follies including an underground grotto).

Cotham Hill/Redland, 96/97
Lived in an upstairs flat near to the big Sainsburys on Whiteladies Road. Redland was known as studentland, full of private rented accommodation which were notoriously crammed with students. Got 2 rooms? Make three student bedrooms out of them... So long as you don't mind Magnolia paint and furniture which has never seen anything like MFI never mind Ikea then you'll be fine. And the uni campus is walkable from Redland (unless you're a vet, or a medic on assignment somewhere miles away).

Park Row, in the summer of ninety-seven...
Park Row is about as central as you can get. I could've rolled out of bed into uni in 4 minutes, if I wasn't so vain...

Southville, 97
The wrong side of the river. Still, near to the waterfront of the Arnolfini Art Centre (fantastic) and the Watershed. Not so well served by transport.

Redland again, 97/98
Deeper and darker Redland, still nice though. See above.

Clifton Village, 98/99
Now Clifton is nice. Just around the corner from Goldney and some other halls. Basic useful shops, and fashion boutiques. Clifton downs are nice (there is a lot of green space in Bristol) and the amazing Clifton Suspension Bridge is well worth visiting on nice days. The area is very expensive though, and you don't get what you pay for, if you know what I mean.


Generally Bristol is a lovely place, it's just universally expensive to live in. I stayed in halls for 2 years and t
hen moved out and had to unfortunately move around a lot - but my experience is uncommon. You could just find one flat and stay there.

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