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Far away living offers freedom, space |
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Tuesday, 05 February 2008 |
Most students planning to move off campus start out looking for the closest possible locations.
However, I have found that living farther away is much more beneficial to me when it comes to convenience and peace and quiet.
I currently live in an apartment complex close to Watauga Medical Hospital.
In my location I still have access to the AppalCART, am just across the street from Wal-Mart, Food Lion and Lowes Hardware and countless restaurants and fast food locations.
Although it is not right next door to campus, it is still easy to get there with a bus route running by my street every hour.
And thanks to my location, I did not have to sell my soul to get a
parking spot - it just came free with the apartment- not to mention, I
can have as many friends over as I want and they do not have to worry
about being towed or booted overnight.
It is also a relief to really feel as if I have left campus when my day
is over, as opposed to being in the middle of it all even when I am at
home.
Sure, I may not be as close to the nightlife on King Street or on U.S.
Highway 321 but at the same time, I can walk out my door and walk the
Greenway Trail whenever I wish.
You will also find that apartments become more affordable the farther
away you move from campus, if you don’t count that pesky
disaster-waiting-to-happen complex towering above Wal-Mart.
Another issue that was important to me when moving off-campus was to
have a place to myself. This was another thing that was easier to find
the farther away I searched from campus.
Living farther from campus also allows students the opportunity to develop better relationship with actual Boone residents.
We, as students, so easily forget that Boone is not Appalachian State
University, but also an entire community of people who have been here
much longer than we have been or will be.
The closer to campus you get, the less actual Boone natives you will meet.
Overall, my location farther from campus has given me many
opportunities that I might not have had living somewhere like King
Street or College Street.
I may have to wake up an extra 30 minutes earlier to catch a bus but in
the end, the good has most definitely outweighed the bad.
Lindsay Craven, a senior journalism and advertising major from Pilot Mountain, is a lifestyles reporter.
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