Money Supermarket declares Exeter second best value-for-money

But they’re wrong and we all know it


The misplaced online price comparison site announced Exeter as second place in a study of Britain’s best value uni towns.  

Money Supermarket examined the UK’s top 20 universities.

Rent prices, insurance costs and the price of a pint were among the factors which were used to determine the winner – Durham.

It doesn’t get any more rah than Monday night Mosaic

Pricey Exeter, named in spring 2014 as the ninth most expensive UK city for living costs, followed close behind Durham.

Only in Exeter will you find Devon’s largest Waitrose located less than 2 minutes away from student halls.

With no other large supermarkets in walking distance except a postage stamp sized Co-op, Waitrose, notable for its middle-class shoppers including the Duchess of Cambridge, is the only resort for those at Rowancroft who want more than some corner-shop staples and have forgotten to order their Tesco delivery in time.

Forced to own a MyWaitrose card occupants of Rowancroft would laugh in the face of the study researchers.

Also, as of this September, Exeter will be home to what the Daily Mail have called ‘Britain’s poshest student digs’.

To live in one of the 44 luxury flats in Exeter’s old city library will set you back by roughly £1,000 a month – around £11,200 a year in rent.

The mighty Holland hall surveys its kingdom

Alongside The Printworks and Dean Clarke Lofts, Exeter isn’t a city which develops for those on a basic budget.

Even regular flats where the majority of us live for our second and third years are more than what your mates pay in northern universities, simply because house prices in Exeter are among the highest across the South West.

Most people will tell you they’ve been bankrupted by a lunch from the university’s own Marketplace.

At £3.60 a sandwich it’s more expensive than Tesco’s.

The Marketplace has turned the best of us lunch-time library warriors into packed lunch connoisseurs.

Not forgetting that one of Exeter’s resident nightclub’s, Mosaic, is bursting to the seams with some of the wealthiest Exonians in the city, popping bottles every Monday.