What do you think of when you think about Sheffield? I can almost guarantee that it will be very similar to my thoughts prior to my first year at university there. You may think of foreboding industrial Victorian scenes of steel mills. You may think of misty, dark, foggy, wet peaks. You may even think of the People’s Republic of Yorkshire — the Red City of Steel. You would be wrong, so very wrong. I was worried before going that as a southerner I would be shunned, that Yorkshire would chew me up and spit me out. I was totally incorrect. The first thing you notice when you come to Sheffield is how green it is. There are trees and parks absolutely everywhere. In fact, there are more green spaces — parks, arboretums, greens and the like — per person in Sheffield than in any other city in the entire UK.
The student villages are fantastic. Unlike most city universities, which have a spread of different accommodation throughout the city, in Sheffield over 4,500 first-year students live within a 5-minute walk of each other. This makes it really easy to share taxis back home from nights out, as well as to make friends and socialise.
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