Do you welcome the return of students to Sheffield? Vox pop
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00:00Yeah, I'm happy for the students to be here. I'm a former student, I came here in about 2009 and stayed ever since, so I think it's a good thing for the city really.
00:11Why did you stay?
00:13It's just a great place to live, there's job opportunities, it's cheaper to live here than where I was before, York, and it's very green, so it's just a lovely place to live.
00:24And what do you notice when the students return?
00:28I think the city's more lively, I think there's more going on, the shops and the pubs are fuller, and I think that's a good thing.
00:37Do you think it brings a bit of life to the city when they do come back?
00:41I think it must do at night, so I've heard, and I've got a relative who at one bit looked after them, you know, used to tour the city and pick them up and dust them off and put them back.
00:55And I listened to him, and he said they're really all good kids, some of them shouldn't have left home as early, because they're immature, you know?
01:06Really?
01:07Well, they'll grow up, won't they?
01:08Do you think you see any of that around Sheffield at all, any students not behaving so well?
01:11No.
01:12No?
01:13Honestly, I haven't. I haven't. And the Asian students, it's a bit of a personal slip of the tongue, only because where I live we have to pass through an area where there's a lot of them, and they are so courteous to the old people.
01:2880-year-old me.
01:30So, you know, they'll stand up, where others just turn their head, no, no, no problem at all.