Property News · July 6, 2018

Let’s move to Lampeter, Ceredigion: a neat town, if you like students


This pretty little market town is a magnet for eco-warriors, hippies and students. Lots and lots of students…What’s going for it? An odd spot for a university campus, I’ve always thought. Lampeter, sitting contentedly amid the juicy green fields and lumpy hills of rural west Wales, is so small you might lose it under a cake crumb on the road map – just shy of 3,000 people, swelling by a third when the students descend. Students, one assumes, who are after a different kind of higher education experience, involving queueing for a pound of lamb chops at the (excellent) butcher’s, perhaps, or a warm buttered Welsh cake from the baker’s, rather than downing their body weight in Jägerbombsnowballs or whatever 19-year-olds drink these days. Not that Lampeter doesn’t offer nightlife of sorts, or that its students (and its permanent residents) don’t live high on the hog from time to time. I’ve witnessed the Friday-night aftermath. But this is essentially a Welsh market town in all its pretty, humdrum glory, albeit with a growing reputation as a magnet for eco-warriors and yarnbombing hippies. Albeit, too, with a higher chance than average of getting into a conversation about the computational modelling of optoelectronic medical devices at the tandoori.The case against Small, hard to get to and from, and inevitably provincial, in good and bad ways; once you’re here, you’re here. The university means it’s got more bustle and diversity in term time than your usual Welsh market town; it’s quiet, though, in the holidays. You might even miss the students. Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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