In my 1st year at university i lived in halls, like the majority of students do. However, there is a limit to the kind of things you can do here (throw parties for example and make noise!)

Therefore, i had decided to move into private accommodation in my second year. I have just completed my second year at university and had no problems watsoever in a private accommodation house.

I think this was largely due to having a very nice land lady!! She was very reasonable and when we moved into our house she had put in new carpet and had gave many of the rooms new furniture! My room was really nice, she had given me really nice pine furniture which had turquiose coloured fronts on them.

When i saw my room i thought it was better than my room at home!! Apart from it being much smaller in size!

She even allowed us to paint our rooms! There are 4 of us who live there altogether. One of them was painted yellow already when we moved in. I painted mine lilac and purple (as they're my fave colours!) We painted another room bright lime and pink!

Everyone that visits our house thinks that its beautiful! Many of them have wanted to rent it out this year, but we've decided to carry the contract on for another year and are planning on painting the living room orange!

We've never really experienced burglaries either, i think this is largely due to the location of our house. It's not on a road where many students live therefore its difficult to pinpoint that it's a student house!

Our land lady has also put a special light into the front bedroom which constantly stays on in the holidays so that it always looks as though someone is in!

Living in a private accommodated house also helps you to learn things about the real world like paying bills etc! As usually in halls all electricity, water etc are included in the weekly/monthly rates.

Overall, i would recommend private acc
ommodation to everyone that is at university. It can definately be rewarding if you find the right house to stay in!!