“Viewing the place took twenty minutes and the answer came the same evening, which after three weeks of silence from other landlords felt almost suspicious. The flat was clean, the radiators worked in October, and nobody has yet asked me to chase a signature down a corridor. Two terms in and the only thing I have reported is a slow tap in the kitchen, which somebody fixed on the Tuesday morning without me having to ask twice.”
“I moved in expecting the usual student-housing compromises and did not get them. The rooms are quiet enough to read in, the kitchen fits more than one person at a time, and the paperwork was done before I arrived rather than during my first week.”
“What I notice most is how little I think about the building. Heating works, post arrives, the study room is free when I need it. That sounds dull, and it is exactly what I wanted from the place I sleep in.”
