'sup bros and ho-ohs. Got a bit of a dilemma here.
So, I'm now a fair way into my first year of university here in the UK and people are starting to look at living arrangements for next year. For those of you who don't know, the general idea is that people live in accommodation owned by the university for their first year and then usually move out into rented accommodation outside of the university afterwards for the second year and possibly later years if required. So that's all very exciting and stuff, but there's one rather obvious problem...
...not everyone can live together. As it stands, I've got four groups of people who want me living with them and who I want to live with. One group is my current flatmates, one is some of my coursemates, one is some friends I've made through sport here, and the other is my best mate at uni and some of his friends who are pretty cool as well.
As far as the flatmates go, we'd probably all end up in one house so be together the same way as we are right now. They're all pretty awesome and I would jump at the chance to live with them, if it wasn't for one guy. Every flat has one bad person I guess and this one is just... ugh. I can see myself living with him I suppose but it'd be really frustrating. The others are getting on with him well enough but he really rubs me up the wrong way and I'd quite like to avoid him where possible. But aside from him, flatmates are great!
Living with coursemates would be good in that I like all of them and it's convenient to live with people who do what you do. I'd go for this if I wasn't gonna be spending a huge amount of time in uni with them anyway, so I'm holding back a little bit here since I feel like it may be limiting myself a little bit. Worth noting that two of my current flatmates are on courses in the same faculty as me anyway.
Sport people would be pretty cool. They're a varied group and they're pretty awesome in general. The issue, though, is that I don't know what it'd be like to actually live with them. Since none of them live together no-one really has an opinion on anyone as a flatmate or, next year, as a housemate. So while they're all good guys I'm pretty hesitant since I'm kinda blind here.
The last option, living with the friend I mentioned earlier, is an interesting one. Basically he's pretty freaking awesome and I know I'd love to live with him. His floormates (since his current accommodation is done in floors rather than flats) are all really nice too, from what I've seen - which is, admittedly, more of some than of others. I see them mostly when I hang around theirs or go with nights out on them or whatever. So I can't really be certain of what they're like to live with or if they're really ok with me living with them or not, although I've been told that they are.
Basically, that's the long and the short of my four options right now. What would you guys do in this situation?