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JTG said:
I'll expand - it's full of the sort of smug nobheads who have so much money they can afford to throw it away on gong washing, reiki and other assorted bollocks. It's empty in the summer cos they've all fucked off to smug liberal hippy wank festivals like Shambala and Big Chill

I apologise if you're some sort of rich hippy tit who thinks they'd enjoy this, go for your life :)

One Stop Thali Cafe and the Old England are alright though
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It's a bit yoghurt wieving, middle class hippy mung bean consuming, mixed with a bit of street sketchnyness round there.

Cadbury house is a good pub up that way too though.
 
Montpelier and St Andrews are nice and walkable to the uni, lots of students round there (one of the Bristol Uni halls is at that end of the Gloucester Road). St Werburghs i'd say was a bit too far of a trek to walk to uni regularly, though is nice enough. Generally the more interesting friendly students live round the gloucester road kind of area, Montpelier is a bit hippyish though, and what JTG says about it being empty during the festival season is almost literally true.

On the other side, Redland and Cotham are close to the Uni campus and studenty, but definitely the home of the posher more well to do students. Students living in clifton 10 years ago was plausible, but now the only ones who can are the very, very well off. If you want to live somewhere posh and stupidly expensive, live in clifton. I wouldn't anymore though. The Clifton halls are actually very close to the uni, just behind the student union on Queen's Road really, and are definitely nicer than the Stoke Bishop halls. They're both going to give you that authentic first year uni experience though, which i guess you're trying to avoid.

So, my vote would be for montpelier/ st andrews or the bit of cotham that runs either side of cotham brow, given you're new to the city, want to live somewhere nice, and i guess not be around the sort of pretentious wanker bristol student that generally stays in the clifton/redland kinda of enclave.
 
xenon said:
It's a bit yoghurt wieving, middle class hippy mung bean consuming, mixed with a bit of street sketchnyness round there.

Cadbury house is a good pub up that way too though.
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I'd say the Cadbury is the acme of wanky studentness. Old England is an experience, but my fave round there is The Beaufort. Lovely pub.
 
never been to the Beaufort. Old E once or twice years ago. Good nights. TBH when I frrequented the Cadbury more, I was a wanky student. Well maybe not so wanky. Most peple in the hall seemed to go for White Ladies Road. Brew House, Hob Goblin Cadbury and Star and Garter for late ones were more our thing. Too scruffy for the rah rah bars.
 
My drinking circuit was this:

Cat & Wheel
Montpelier Hotel
Cadbury
The Bell

Never used to go to the Old England until I started working there, but for a few years we never went anywhere else!

Then the Brewhouse opened and the Old England lost a lot of trade.
 
Ah yeah the Cat and Wheel. My mate lived on Zetland Road, just up the way. Used to have a quiet one in there on Sundays. Brew House was great for gigs mid week. 4 quid 3 bands. Not been so much now it's the Croft. I should drag myself a bit further north these days.
 
A lot of pubs on the Gloucester Road have changed quite a bit - I went in the Prince of Wales the other week, it's been done out and is now quite trendy and studentish. It looks a lot better but it's expensive and I did not like the fact that the toilets were unisex.
 
Geri said:
Is it still a haunt of the SWP?
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I think they moved to the Cat and Wheel:

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My partner doesn't like the unsiex loos in the POW - drunken blokes leaving the trap door open while they have a slash. It's not one my favourite pubs, tho I did prefer it before they tried to do it up.
 
I'm moving down to Bristol in a few months as well.
Very excited to be getting out of London and starting a new life in a new city :cool:

I unfortunately have no idea where I will be working, what I will be doing, what I will get paid, what my hours will be and consequently where I can live. But on the plus side, I do have a job.
 
kropotkin said:
I'm moving down to Bristol in a few months as well.
Very excited to be getting out of London and starting a new life in a new city :cool:

I unfortunately have no idea where I will be working, what I will be doing, what I will get paid, what my hours will be and consequently where I can live. But on the plus side, I do have a job.
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Yo uhave a job but you don't know where it is? Mysterious.:cool:
 
I'm coming because it seems to be a very good city. Near to lots of countryside- mountain biking, climbing, walking, camping. Good music. Smaller than London- won't take me an hour to get anywhere. Skins.
 
Crispy said:
In fact, if you look on a map, it's a stupidly roundabout route. It's 1.3 miles in a straight line from bedminster station to the uni, but 9 miles on the train plus nearly a mile walk the other end.
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After revolution when I'm Peoples Commissar for Railways one of the first projects would be to build a metro tunnel from Temple Meads towards Clifton. :cool:
 
I've always thought you could put an underground system through the layers of soft clay in the city, especially the ones that run up valleys (gloucester road, etc). Where the stop ends up well below ground level, like clifton, you could put in some of those badass long escalators like they have in the tube in Russia.

ETA: Oh, and put on going up and one going down Park Street whilst you're at it.
 
Latest issue of Venue has a big feature on best places to lvie in bristol/bath if that's any use. ('best' in their perpsepctive means 'best for a lefty/liberal graduuate type' - really).
 
JTG said:
I'll expand - it's full of the sort of smug nobheads who have so much money they can afford to throw it away on gong washing, reiki and other assorted bollocks. It's empty in the summer cos they've all fucked off to smug liberal hippy wank festivals like Shambala and Big Chill

I apologise if you're some sort of rich hippy tit who thinks they'd enjoy this, go for your life :)

One Stop Thali Cafe and the Old England are alright though
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I KNOW IT'S STILL EARLY BUT THIS IS MY POST OF THE YEAR :D

(and accurate too!)
 
I'd recommend Easton, piss easy by train, cheap rents and good pubs. Great if you want to avoid the rah student scene which is wank.

Good tips when you arrive is to join the Jazz, Funk, Soul and/or Reggae Soc if you're into that type of music, we had the best nights going. :cool:

ps you can get a student pass for Bristol Rovers which will get you in for kiddies prices.
 
BlackArab said:
I'd recommend Easton, piss easy by train, cheap rents and good pubs. Great if you want to avoid the rah student scene which is wank.

Good tips when you arrive is to join the Jazz, Funk, Soul and/or Reggae Soc if you're into that type of music, we had the best nights going. :cool:

ps you can get a student pass for Bristol Rovers which will get you in for kiddies prices.
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Yeah but he's going to be a student, so it might be nice to actually be near other students, or at least, his university.
 
electrogirl said:
Yeah but he's going to be a student, so it might be nice to actually be near other students, or at least, his university.
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I had thought about that but was thinking as a mature student there he might want to be away from it all. I was one up to a couple of years ago at the same uni and it was quite refreshing to be out the student ghetto. Factor in the trains and its actually quite easy to get to and from.
 
My friend did the same course, also as a mature student, and she didn't want to hang around with the other students at her age. Luckily there were a few other mature students on the course. I think they ended up being more pally with the lecturers. :D
 
Been down there these past couple of days for a mature student open day. Bristol looks like a good place to live and the course is fucking brilliant, it's all the stuff I bore people down the pub with wrapped up into one course :D.

Got talking to a woman who lives there and she gave me a list of places to live that are near the uni, it's pretty much the same as what's been said on here. While I don't wanna be right in the student scene I do wanna be somewhere on the edge of it. Afterall it's going to be my permanent home for the next 3 years at least so I need to be in a position to meet people, especially as I plan to live by myself.
 
I'm going to Bristol uni in september as well, I was thinking of going into halls though the ones on the campus, just because I hate getting up early that much. I'll be 26 by then but I get on fairly well with younger people.... some of them anyway... or is that a really bad idea? I don't want to live on my own though and I don't know anyone I want to move in with, all my friends who live there already are mental party heads and I'd never get any work done living with them.
 
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