The Anonymous Widower

Mums Launch Student Home Swap Scheme

It’s all here on the BBC. And their web site is here at unihomeswap.co.uk.

As it says in the article it’s just returning to how it was done in the 1960’s, except that you didn’t actually swap.

For instance in my first year at Liverpool University, I was in digs at Huyton, which was quite a long bus ride to and from the City Centre. Students may moan about their lot these days, but we had a whole different set of moans and digs a long way from the University was one of them.

These days as I wander around London, it seems most students have their own room in a modern block, somewhere near their University or College. But then they are expensive.

Even when I got into Hall for the third year of my course, it was still a long way from the University.

Incidentally, C wasn’t very lucky with the digs she shared with a girl called Sandra and had terrible trouble finding something where they could stay. In one case, the landlord wasn’t a man, any sane father would let near his daughters.

I think it’s a good idea and I wish the designers of the site well.

February 4, 2012 - Posted by AnonW | News, World | Liverpool University, University