{"id":93292,"date":"2018-07-06T22:30:04","date_gmt":"2018-07-06T15:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/lets-move-to-lampeter-ceredigion-a-neat-town-if-you-like-students\/"},"modified":"2018-07-06T23:03:22","modified_gmt":"2018-07-06T16:03:22","slug":"lets-move-to-lampeter-ceredigion-a-neat-town-if-you-like-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/lets-move-to-lampeter-ceredigion-a-neat-town-if-you-like-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Let\u2019s move to Lampeter, Ceredigion: a neat town, if you like students"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nThis pretty little market town is a magnet for eco-warriors, hippies and students. Lots and lots of students\u2026What\u2019s going for it? An odd spot for a university campus, I\u2019ve 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 \u2013 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\u2019s, perhaps, or a warm buttered Welsh cake from the baker\u2019s, rather than downing their body weight in J\u00e4gerbombsnowballs or whatever 19-year-olds drink these days. Not that Lampeter doesn\u2019t offer nightlife of sorts, or that its students (and its permanent residents) don\u2019t live high on the hog from time to time. I\u2019ve 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\u2019re here, you\u2019re here. The university means it\u2019s got more bustle and diversity in term time than your usual Welsh market town; it\u2019s quiet, though, in the holidays. You might even miss the students. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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