Opinion: The true cost students pay to live in Jesmond
Jesmond living is increasingly expensive with prices and pressures to find housing hiking up. But most of us pay to still live here.
By Grace Bamforth
Cavendish Place, student filled street. Image by: Grace Bamforth
Jesmond is the student place to be, there’s no doubt about it. According to Northumbria University one in ten students choose to live in Jesmond and Newcastle University states it is the most popular area for students, in the Chronicle Live. The appeal for students to live in Jesmond began increasing in the 1980s. Jesmond today is renowned to students, with it becoming a form of student campus, with certain streets taken over and turned into HMO ghettos. We all want to live here and are willing to pay whatever the cost is to live in...