Visited LJMU yesterday with DS. It was until recently the choice he was least likely to go for out of his offers as it ranks quite low in all the tables, but it happens to be very close to St Helens which is where he intends to be transferred to within the TA.
My impression was that the Uni faculty building itself was, if not tatty, then certainly not as slick as the others we've looked at (Manch and Bristol), but that's no real problem, and the lecturer was, I thought, good, and I think the way they teach would fit DS's way of learning better than Manchester which is very heavily exams rather than coursework.
The accomodation was really nice, airy, clean and central.
Here's the but;
The actual city itself seemed to be full of huge tracts of wasteland almost like bombsites, and there was hardly anyone in the streets. I know it was a Wednesday in winter, but literally one or two people in a city centre street seemed kind of strange. We didn't find the bit where the bars, clubs, restaurants are and I suspect they may be in a pedestrianised bit (we were driving around the city).
So my question is, is Liverpool a lively sort of place usually, ie are there buzzing clubs, pubs, shops, is it reasonably safe (the wasteland bits were a bit offputting to me, DS didn't seem bothered by them).
We actually lived in the outskirts of Liverpool for a couple of years a long time ago and DS was born there but we moved when he was 5 weeks old and haven't been back for 18 years, so we don't know anyone in RL to ask. One of the main reasons we left was that we had 5 or 6 instances of crime within 2 years (mugging, burglaries, car break ins etc)
Can anyone say what their experience/impressions of Liverpool these days is please?
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mumblechum1 · 08/03/2013 10:06
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