1. You don't have to worry about freezing to death when someone's forgotten to pay the electricity bill.
2. You've got fewer outgoings which means you've got money for spending on more ~important~ things.
3. Like train tickets to visit your pals at different campuses across the country.
4. There's always hot water when you need it.
5. And there's always a fully stocked fridge of fresh and tasty food, ready for the picking.
1st year of uni was class, but i'll happily swap living with my flatmates for living at home with a full fridge
6. You're always dressed in actual clothes for lectures and seminars – unlike the rest of your class.
7. But you still have to put up with questions like "What time do you think you'll be home?"
8. Every night that you go "out out", you end up torn between taking a two-hour night bus home, sleeping on someone's dorm floor, or ~finding a bed for the night~.
9. Coming home drunk is one thing. Having to disguise a hangover to your dad the next day is quite another.
10. At least you don't know the horrors of packing your whole life into two suitcases, including half of Ikea...yet.
11. You can have pets when you live in your own house and don't have to answer to draconian landlords.
12. You'd think there'd be fewer distractions when you actually need to do work, because your parents want you to do well. But no.
I'm literally sitting trying to finish my uni assignment that is due TOMORROW and my mum is nagging me to clean my room??????
Classic mum.
13. You have to make an extra effort to make mates.
14. But the fact that you're not living with everyone else probably means you've got a better chance of swerving freshers' flu.
15. And you don't have any weirdo housemates who you have to put up with for the sake of peace.
moving out is weird and scary and i just heard my housemates having mad sex next to my fucking box room i'm upset
16. The only music you have to listen to is your own well-chosen collection.
17. And there's no one around to ~borrow~ any of your possessions.
18. You know that if you find a lump of hair in the shower, it's probably yours.
TW: hair? #LongHairProblems
19. Because your bathroom is always nice 'n' clean.
20. Because you're well looked-after, people assume you can't do things for yourself.
21. Skipping lectures is a whole lot harder when your parents vaguely know your schedule.
22. And if you do have a day off, suddenly you have to ~justify~ why you're still asleep at 8am.
23. Even at the weekend, there's no such thing as a proper lie-in.
24. Leaving the pub early to get the last train home is a real bitch.
25. And there's nothing more soul-destroying than getting to campus after an hour commute to find that a lecture's been cancelled.
26. But at the end of the day, Dorothy had it right.
