Ormorof
FH is my second home
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- Dec 22, 2003
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i love hull, dont get me wrong, it is one of the best places ive lived, it definately has a much worse rep than it deserves, but it is a very quirky place, but fantastically fun, but as with any city, as long as you avoid dodgy areas its not too bad, the area around newland avenue etc is very nice, but does seem to be mostly students (i spent a few summers in Hull and a lot of shops closed for weeks at a time because there were no students to spend money in them), i also lived in Cottingham which is a lovely village just outside Hull (lived in the Lawns which were awesome), its still amazingly cheap, i had a massive room (about 25sq metres) with all bills (gas, electricity, water and 15mb internet) for £240 a month, admiteddly i shared the house (and none of the other rooms were as big and we all paid the same), with 9 other people but it was totally worth it
i now live in Helsinki and i still hurt everytime i buy or pay for anything and mutter "in Hull that would be a third of the price..."
edit; i love it, but it has its risks! i was mugged once (punched in face with a knuckle duster, luckily not hurt or scarred too bad), burgled 3 times (twice in the same house), and i know many others who were burgled every xmas/easter simply because the robbers knew exactly when the students were away (and since most of the student landlords put a big sign in the front of their houses its easy to tell which is a student house!)
i now live in Helsinki and i still hurt everytime i buy or pay for anything and mutter "in Hull that would be a third of the price..."
edit; i love it, but it has its risks! i was mugged once (punched in face with a knuckle duster, luckily not hurt or scarred too bad), burgled 3 times (twice in the same house), and i know many others who were burgled every xmas/easter simply because the robbers knew exactly when the students were away (and since most of the student landlords put a big sign in the front of their houses its easy to tell which is a student house!)