Issues for living out
When students live out, there are as many options as you can think of and a few more besides. Everything from housing associations to housing shelters, from campsites to communes.
Students, however, tend to stick to a certain part of the market — as described below — although a significant proportion also live at home (i.e. with their parents or in their own place).
Some universities have rules about where their students can and can’t live. For instance, quite a few (especially the more traditional universities) say that unless you’ve got permission, you have to live within, say, ten miles of the university during term-time. Most need to know your address (which means you have to have one). And some may even have rules about not living in brothels.
Last updated on: 21 May 2008