Hello again,

I think a lot can depend on the type of hall you experience, as well as personal taste and lifestyle of course.

I had the fortune to spend 4 years in a newly built modern hall. Each person had a double bedroom with private ensuite shower and plenty of space/storage, good sound insulation between rooms, nice views of the countryside or town, facilities inside the hall like shopping, 24/7 vending machines, big restaurant, cafe, huge laundry, IT center, pool tables etc. Even a small (free!) mini cinema, built into the hall.

It was more like living in a large hotel room, and in the summertime, it turned into a hotel when the students were away.

Not the cheapest hall in town, but there were plenty in there similar as myself from a poor & working class background - uni accomodation was more affordable back then. It was nice.

On the other hand, later on I stayed for 2 years in the cheapest hall in town.

Lovely friends in the corridor, but good heavens... the stinky dirty toilets... the noise... random people stealing things... no space to work, just a bed...

If not for the nice people I met, it would have been awful.

TRS