1. Shopping: I struggled a lot in my first year with attempting to carry my weekly shop home from Tesco\u2019s. Often it resulted in me desperately calling my flat mates to come help because I bought way too much pasta that even The Hulk couldn\u2019t lift it. Having a car at hand means shopping is a thousand times easier. You can always online shop but I find that I end up buying a lot of random things I do not need due to the minimum spend policy you must meet to have your shopping delivered.<\/p>\n
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2. Part-time Work: if you want to find part-time work at University, you do not have to stress about just looking within walking distance.<\/p>\n
3. Going home: I go home a lot more once I bought my car to University. It\u2019s easier to just whack your bags into the boot and quickly get on the road as compared to having to book a train and haul your things to Cardiff Central, etc. So, it\u2019s something to consider if you\u2019ll want to be going home a lot.<\/p>\n
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4. Visiting friends: as well as going home, you\u2019ll find you\u2019ll go and visit your friends at different universities a lot more. There is nothing more fun than a cheeky road trip full of eye-spy, iced coffee and a weekend ahead full of fun.<\/p>\n
5. Visiting different places: you can visit different places within Cardiff and around it like Barry Island or Pen Y Fan.<\/p>\n
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6. Sports: if you\u2019re in a sports team\/society, you\u2019ll find you do away games.<\/p>\n
Cons<\/strong><\/p>\n 1. Cost: it is evidently going to cost a lot of money to keep filling your tank up and the general cost of running a car. Of course, as a student, this probably isn\u2019t going to be the easiest thing in the world. You\u2019ll need to factor in whether you could genuinely afford to run a car, or how much you\u2019ll be using it for that money to be worth it.<\/p>\n 2. Parking: parking in Cardiff, is in all honesty, a nightmare. My car is currently parked in residential parking (for which you\u2019ll need to get a permit \u2013 more expenses!) and sometimes it\u2019s difficult to even guarantee I\u2019ll ever get a space on my road. This has been easily the most frustrating element of bringing a car to University.<\/p>\n 3. Lifts: you\u2019ll inevitably be asking for lifts everywhere! Train station, shops, University, McDonalds \u2013 you name it, you\u2019ll be asked!<\/p>\n 4. Everything is in walking distance anyway: everything in Cardiff is mostly in walking distance anyway. So unless you do have a job that is going to be further away, you\u2019ll find you won\u2019t be needing it that much at all!<\/p>\n 5. Alternative travel: Cardiff offers lots of different alternative travel options anyway. Trains run frequently throughout Cardiff and go pretty much everywhere. With a 16-25 railcard, you can save up to a third on all your tickets!<\/p>\n So, there are a lot of different things to consider when bringing your car to University. You may want to spend first year without a car and see how you manage and then debate about bringing it for second year. Some people bring their cars back after Easter semester only, so it\u2019ll be easier to move out after exams. In the end, whatever you choose, there will be pros and cons, as with most things in life!<\/p>\n Good luck and safe travels everyone \ud83d\ude0a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I think everyone can agree that there is no better freedom than when you finally own your own car. From the age of 17, most people are rushing to their […]","protected":false},"author":1523,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,10,20],"tags":[355,354,356,357,353],"class_list":["post-7475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-going-out","category-living-away-from-home","category-travelling","tag-bringing-a-car-to-university","tag-car","tag-car-to-uni","tag-should-i-bring-my-car-to-uni","tag-student-cars"],"meta_box":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/insiders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/insiders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/insiders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/insiders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1523"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/insiders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7475"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/insiders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8464,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/insiders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7475\/revisions\/8464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/insiders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/insiders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/insiders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/insiders\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/523\/2018\/05\/nomoney4-300x294.jpg\")
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