Liverpool - safety tips for young student.

[DeliaOwens]

Hello, I’m after some best friend/your favourite auntie type advice.
my DD has accepted an offer in Liverpool for her degree. So happy, first choice and great match for her.
So, here is my question. She is a very mature and relatively savvy young lady at 18 but has spent all her years so far in a relatively small town, near a small city. So, she has no real world experience of Big City living.
What are your top tips for safety when living and socialising in Liverpool.
She will have a car so what safety tips for retuning to her car if she is working in say a restaurant or late bar?

What tip/tips would you give your friend/niece/daughter as they begin student life?
Oh, she will be in halls in/close to city centre.

Re travelling about the city Liverpool has very good public transport and all hospitals are easy to reach by bus or Merseyrail.

Liverpool is a city pretty much like any other.

I would recommend she does a self defence course. Our uni offered one and it was brilliant. Lots of tips to keep safe.

@renovatedlady If you live in a big city and want nursing, why move away if there’s a nursing course? It’s cheaper to stay at home. It was even cheaper when nurses worked, earned and studied and lived at the hospitals! We do like to over complicate things!

By university, my DD had one living grandparent and only 2 at birth. Many don’t have grandparents with money. It’s clearly a stupid system to require undergrads to have cars.

Other things that have popped into my head that are Liverpool specific:

• if she’s walking back from town later on, go up bold street/hardman street rather than parliament street, busier
• park bee on bold street is a good, safe car park if she does need to drive down into town
• if they go round the docks, water safety
• if they head up to Crosby beach, beware sink sand
• if she goes to anything at invisible find factory/blackstone street, walking back in a group ONLY. Otherwise, taxi or train.
• probably avoid wandering round Kenny till second semester when she’s got the lay of the land

Its not a small quiet and safe city like Bath or York though, is it, its more a large and semi-industrial city like Manchester or Newcastle.

York quiet on a Saturday night? Hollow laugh.

True. I'd include Friday night as well, but it's generally a small, safe and quiet city. Its only got drunks on the weekends, that doesn't make it crime-ridden.

This isn't specific to Liverpool, but remind your DD to take precautions against drink spiking:

• don't accept drinks from strangers
• keep an eye on her drink
• never leave her drink unattended - if she needs to go to the loo, either take her drink with her, or ask a trusted friend to watch it

My kids were taught this kind of precaution / common sense when they were in middle school, (long before they reached the legal drinking age) I think it is quite common for young people to be aware of it now. Worth repeating though.

Just popping on to say thank you to everyone who took time to reply. We are grateful to you all.

We are currently planning a trip to the new Sephora followed by lunch and a walk around Speke Hall and Gardens in the coming days

I always pop into Uniqlo when in Liverpool.