BS: Info on UK cities

Subject: RE: BS: Info on UK cities
From: Megan L
Date: 02 Aug 05 - 02:29 PM

ach lassie if ye want to goe forieng try here http://www.uhi.ac.uk/academicpartners/orkney.shtm

Subject: RE: BS: Info on UK cities
From: Bunnahabhain
Date: 02 Aug 05 - 01:15 PM

One other thing.
Scotland is banning smoking in all pubs, and other enclosed public spaces, as of spring 2006. Being able to see, and to breathe in a pub will be a nice change.

Edinburgh and Glasgow are good, Aberdeen is grey, cold and depressing, St Andrews remote and strange. Dundee and Stirling are both nice smaller cities, with universties that feel alot more Scottish than some.

Subject: RE: BS: Info on UK cities
From: GUEST,DB
Date: 02 Aug 05 - 12:31 PM

When I first left home, about 35 years ago, I move to the North, just to be different, because everybody else seemed to automatically move to London.
The first city I moved to was Liverpool - and I loved it! It was then a city rather down on its luck but it had bags of variety, character and charm (and still does, of course!). The inhabitants of Liverpool, 'Scousers', like to give the impression of being 'hard' (and I certainly wouldn't choose Liverpool as a place to pick a fight!)but I always found them very warmhearted and friendly.
Unfortunately, this first move didn't work out - which was not Liverpool's fault - and I ended up in Manchester.
I've lived in Manchester, now, for 33 years but I've never really warmed to it (can't imagine living anywhere else, though). Mancunians are just as warmhearted as Liverpudlians and I have many Mancunian friends. Its just that I find the city, itself, ugly and depressing.
Liverpool has the Mersey Estuary and the Docks which give it a great sense of freedom and space. It also has many fine and historic buildings which give a sense of history and continuity.
Manchester, on the other hand, has no dramatic features whatsoever and actively seeks out any interesting buildings and tears them down in the name of 'progress'. At the moment skyscrapers are being thrown up all over the city centre - so now we're going to be blessed with absolutely loads of office space (yawn!).

Subject: RE: BS: Info on UK cities
From: Paul Burke
Date: 02 Aug 05 - 10:15 AM

If it's any help, the Boy Tom has just finished at Sheffield Uni, and decided (for the moment) to settle there, so I suppose he likes it.

Subject: RE: BS: Info on UK cities
From: Gray D
Date: 01 Aug 05 - 08:27 PM

If you're in the South West then Cardiff is probably north of you. Lively city, good uni, touch of foreign culture and they've just built a MASSIVE student accomodation block in Adam Street. Vast majority of people English speaking. Not nearly as hardline Welsh as Aberystwyth can be.

If you must go "oop nawth", as I believe they say it, my ex-student colleagues have a lot of good things to say about Leeds e.g. one of the longest student union bars anywhere and a wide choice of venues for going out.

If you went to Keele - near Stoke on Trent - you might meet one of my daughters who should be a first-year there in October . . . A-levels permitting.

Wherever you end up, have fun.

Gray D

Subject: RE: BS: Info on UK cities
From: R. Padgett
Date: 01 Aug 05 - 07:13 PM

Sheffield has 2 Hallam and the old University, but what do you want to study?

What qualifications? Do you have?

Sheffield is rich in Folk activity and good dance/English/Irish etc live music sessions and a Festival in October

Very active South Riding Folk Network, Stirrings folk mag covers activities Sth Yorks and down to about Worksop up to Leeds/York ish

Sheffield is now virtually smoke free having been a heavy industrial steel City, see Kelham Island industrial museum; has a modern tram system for getting about

Subject: RE: BS: Info on UK cities
From: Bunnahabhain
Date: 01 Aug 05 - 05:26 PM

How much more Northern? Both Edinburgh and Glasgow are good cities, and good universities. Glasgow feels a much bigger place. Don't try and get a flavour of Edinburgh for a few weeks, as the city is a little mad in August. Fun but mad....

Subject: RE: BS: Info on UK cities
From: *Laura*
Date: 01 Aug 05 - 05:21 PM

Thanks everyone.
Yes it should GUEST but it's not just about the degree - it's about the whole experience of going to university. There's no point getting an amazing degree if you're wasting three years of your life living in a place you don't like.
I just looked up Nottingham on WLD's recommendation (thankyou) but unfortunately it doesn't do a course I like. Similarly there is a course I'd love in London - which is the only one I know I'm applying to at the moment - and I don't want to be in London much but if I got in then I'd love to do that course.
Gnomad - preferences.... umm... I don't know really. I like doing.. normal student stuff I guess! Pubs... a good theatre!... Just somewhere with lots going on.
Thanks and keep the city references coming!!

xLx

Subject: RE: BS: Info on UK cities
From: Linda Kelly
Date: 01 Aug 05 - 05:19 PM

Laura if you come to Hull try to remember that people who reside in the university district have formed their opinions of students from the frequency their bins are turned over, the number of times they are woken up in the middle of the night by loud raucous singing and screaming, and by the level of litter that pervades during term time and yet mysteriously disappears during the holidays. Why would one trust the future of one's country in the hands of people who are incapable of placng their takeaway litter in a bin? I realise that I have suddenly become my mother during this thread, but the student house opposite has had its alarm ringing since 9pm -and the landlords? well thats another thing........

Subject: RE: BS: Info on UK cities
From: GUEST
Date: 01 Aug 05 - 05:01 PM

Top 100 European universities.

This link will tell you that you need to install a programme to read it, you don't need to, just click cancel and it will open.

1.Check out the uni that has achieved the best results for the course you want to do.

2.Check out if you have the passes they require for you to enrol.

3.If you haven't, then choose one in an area you fancy living
in.

Where it is should be your last consideration if you want a good degree?

Subject: RE: BS: Info on UK cities
From: nutty
Date: 01 Aug 05 - 04:10 PM

If you click on "Images" on the GooGle page and then enter the town or city name, you can often get a flavour of places that the promotional info won't give.

Subject: RE: BS: Info on UK cities
From: Little Robyn
Date: 01 Aug 05 - 03:54 PM

Hi Laura,
If you go to Newcastle you can study folk music!!!
Robyn

Subject: RE: BS: Info on UK cities
From: wildlone
Date: 01 Aug 05 - 03:39 PM

How about HERE,
You could say you are studying abroard.
dave

Subject: RE: BS: Info on UK cities
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 01 Aug 05 - 03:30 PM

could be a culture shock.....though the whole point is that you're young and a good time is virtually guaranteed most places.

Nottingham is generally reckoned to be a student friendly town with lots happening. My neice was in manchester and while she enjoyed it, the impression I got was that its a big town, too spread out to really get to grips with the whole scene. You need a car for manchester, whereas in Nottingham there are trams most places and buses everywhere else.

there are places where your money will go further, because accommodation will be cheaper.....Hull, I would have thought.

don't you have to go where they are running the course you want?

Subject: RE: BS: Info on UK cities
From: gnomad
Date: 01 Aug 05 - 03:11 PM

Try to sample them a bit, the coming festival season is an ideal excuse.

Any city is capable of becoming home (just look how many people call any given place home) but only you can tell whether somewhere can be home for YOU.

If you would express a few preferences we could probably make a few "I would avoid/consider xxx" suggestions, but at a time when personal development is at full steam you are likely to find that your taste will also develop, and not always in the way you might expect.

I think you have the right idea in moving out of the SW, I'm sure that it is lovely, but so is a lot of the rest and you will never have a better chance to try it. What about overseas, or is that too big a step/ruled out by other considerations?

Subject: BS: Info on UK cities
From: *Laura*
Date: 01 Aug 05 - 01:42 PM

This might seem kinda stupid seeing as I am from the UK - but I'm in the process of deciding which universities to apply for - and I need some help!!
I realised that other than London, Leicester and the South-West - my UK knowledge is practically non-existant!
I went to Whitby (festival) when I was four, but other than that I've never been further north than Leicester!! I would like to go out of the South-west to Uni - not cos I don't like it (I do - very much), just becasue I'd like to go somewhere different. (i.e. NOT bristol/bath/exeter/plymouth/bournmouth etc) and I'm not all that keen on being in London. But when I try and look up cities on the internet you just get all the promotional stuff.
So what I want to know is - what are some of the more northen cities REALLY like??
And I thought who better to ask than all you British mudcatters!? Hell even some of you non-british mudcatters probably know some of these cities better than I do!!

Anyway - any help much appreciated!

xLx