Did you stay in your university town or did you never go back?

[JaimeParis]

Or what?!

I studied in Manchester for four years and only ever went back once to visit a friend about a year later. Most people on my course left too. In fact I ended up teaching in the same school in London as one of them. I know some people live in their university town for life. What did you do?

I moved away (to London) for nearly a decade, then moved back with futire dh to a village right near my university city. Stayed there for just over a decade and then moved to the other end of the country. Although it's beautiful where I live now, my university city is my favourite town/city in the world. I have huge nostalgia for it.

Question here. Do you ever visit your old university?

I've had no occasion to, other than that we both went with dd to its open day. DH visited a few times for work, in the same way as he did quite a lot of other unis, and would likely drop in on his PhD supervisor while he was there.

I went to a campus university, which was fun for a few years as a student, but the town itself wasn't anywhere I would have liked to have lived and worked.

Stayed for about six months after graduation, but almost all my friends had left so I moved back home. Stayed there a few years then moved to another town. I've been back a couple of times, just for old time's sake.

I'm not really in touch with any uni friends but as far as I can see from Facebook, no-one lives there. It was a fun place to go to uni but not great for adult life.

If I could make it work I'd live there in a heartbeat. As it is, I live 400 miles away and for various reasons there's no way I'll ever relocate but part of my heart will always be where I went to university.

Not only am I still in the university town I now work at the university I went to!

Visited often and still love it, but moved to London for work.

Still have the same uni email?

Left and never returned.

I did undergraduate, then moved cities for PhD and am still there as a professor!

Almost 20 years later and DH and I are still here. So are several of ur uni friends. We're a pretty close knit group. Settled, many married, a few with kids. It's a great city, which is part of what drew us here to study in the first place.

I stayed for a few years after graduation, left for 10 years, came back 6 years ago and now planning to leave again next year. I love it here, but it's extremely spenny. We've been talking about extending our house to add an additional bedroom and reception room and it's easily going to cost us £150k (estimation based on similar work on friends houses in the last 2 years), whereas we could move out of the city, gain the space we want on a new property and release equity in our home even taking moving costs into account...so spend £150k on our current house or spend £15k on moving, gain the same sq footage but bank £50k in the process....no brainer sadly!!

Anyone want to share what city they are talking about?

No jobs there (in my field) back then so I moved on.

Dundee.

Went to UEA, stayed in Norwich for 4 years after, went abroad for a couple of years, came back to Norwich for a few months then moved to Cambridge.
Rarely go back to Norwich, don't think I've ever been back to UEA.

I left straight after graduation 30 years ago. Went back earlier this year for the first time so dd could do uni visit. That made me feel old!

I wanted to stay in Bristol but headed up the M4 to London where all the jobs in my field were.

Stayed. Met my now husband, he was from the area (not a student). If I hadn't met him I probably would have gone home as I miss friends and the sea side. I do enjoy the distance between me and my parents though (as much as I love them).

I visit my university town about once a year as I have friends who live there.
Most of my friends stayed for a few years and then left.
My friends at other universities ( namely Sheffield and Nottingham) still live there

I stayed for a couple of years living with friends, then met dh and moved to where he lived at the time. My dh is actually from where I went uni so although we don't live there now we visit regularly, our first child was born there. We plan to move back one day, I loved living there and miss it.

I went home first and then worked abroad, then found myself back at the uni city as my BF was there. We stayed for about 15 years before moving away. We won’t be back again, but I have find memories.

Never went back, 35 years in Brighton

I left after graduation but loved where I was at Uni, it’s an old historic cathedral city. Always felt more like home than where I grew up. I have visited it a lot over the years with my husband & daughter who also like it. Then a couple of years ago we were looking to move somewhere new, so we decided to move here and I love being back, even if it took me 26 years to get back.

Left Northern Uni town & never went back. Moved to London for work.

Stayed for 5 years, married someone I had met at uni.
Left after 5 years because DH was offered his dream job elsewhere.
By that point I had an 18month old and knew I did not want to bring him up in a city, (especially that city!)

18 years later we haven't moved back.
Though do visit occasionally as DH's family are not too far away from that city.