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To all the Britons out there,
in a couple months' time, I have to decide which city to live in for ~10+ month during the Erasmus program.
Alas, I haven't been to the UK in many, many years and I'd love to get your impressions if you have any town, city or region you're particularly partial to.
Here's a list of places I could go to:
Aberystwyth (Wales)
Bangor
Belfast
Birmingham
Brighton
Bristol
Cardiff
Durham
Edinburgh
Kent
Lancaster
Leeds
Leicester
London - Queen Mary College
London - Royal Holloway College
Loughborough
Manchester
Middlesex
Nottingham
Sheffield
Surrey
Sussex
(Stockholm)
(Uppsala)
I'm not sure why the last two are even on the list...
Having a body of water nearby would be superb, living next to the sea an absolute dream.
Cheers guys,
M.
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hm, a woman at my uni once told me the UK (I was aiming for scotland there) wouldn't be covered by the erasmus program?
Gotta check up on that>_>'
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These were taken from the UK exchange program of my university, link provided by the AAA.
Which uni did you attend?
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if you're in london, hit me up haha
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I presume you will be attending the university there? That makes a massive difference than just the place.
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On June 03 2013 07:24 Meow-Meow wrote:
These were taken from the UK exchange program of my university, link provided by the AAA.
Which uni did you attend?
I'm attending the University of Applied Sciences Iserlohn (Fachhochschule Südwestfalen Iserlohn for the german name).
We had to do a project in our freshman year (2nd semester) where we had to plan a semester abroad. At the time we were told about a scottish partner university where it's possible to get the Bachelor of Honors after spending 9 months there (as soon as finishing the B.Sc. here).
When we spoke to someone from the department for this kind of stuff she told me that. But I wanted to go there next week anyway, in order to sign up for the whole thing. Will definitely check about the whole erasmus thing online beforehand, though.
Edit: according to sources I've found the whole UK partakes in it. Maybe I missunderstood something she said or it was a mistake on her side. Good to hear this:d
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I'd suggest a major city, anything less will be boring and shitty for a foreigner imo.
Brighton if your gay. Gay capital of england that. Took a weekend trip there with my wife, Brighton pier is good fun (massive arcade / small amusement park w/ rides) and the towns pretty, little alleys and shit going all over the place with some stuff to do, lots of tourism there and strange shit happening.
London is a sure-thing, plenty to do, loads of cultures mixed into one (whites are practically a minority) Youve got museums, nightclubs, tourist hotspots (Buckingham palace, London eye etc) but there is a SHITLOAD of people in central london, the outskirts are alright though, which is probably where you'll be living and only venturing to central for fun-having-purposes.
Edinburgh / Scotland is a lovely place, alot calmer then london, beautiful city along with glasgow which is closeby ( 1 hour by train i think) and some beautiful scenery nearby (highly recommend loch lomond, went there for my 1 year anniversary) with still plenty to do touristy-wise and nightclubs etc.
On that list the only other place i could recommend is Manchester because its a central city with lots going on, ive never been there myself.
Oh and my source is that im english, lived in london for 19 years and visited these places myself  (other then manchester)
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On June 03 2013 08:56 Goshawk. wrote:
I presume you will be attending the university there? That makes a massive difference than just the place.
Does it, though? I think the whole purpose of the exchange is immersing myself in the culture to get a better access to the language, so I'm not sure if the renown of the exchange-university really matters that much. Maybe it looks better on a résumé to have been to London, as it is more easily recognized, but I doubt the difference between the schools themselves is too large.
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