Tag: housemates

"All things considered, then, I’d still choose to live out. Maybe it isn’t perfect, but living out has been a staple of Oxford student life for decades, and it’s one of the only similarities it has to the typical student experience at any other university."

As this is the first instalment of my column, it would be natural to give a little bit of background to what I’m going...

It started with a whining. A soft, barely discernible purring every time we flushed the toilet or turned the taps. “Character”, we called it....

Aidan Balfe’s reflections on a year of living out in Cowley, and the communal living myth