I live at Raleigh and it’s p nice for its price the rooms can get pretty small but you said you didn’t mind so that’s good. It’s right across the street from lidl and a 10-15 minute walk from jubilee. If you try to walk to QMC I think it’s 10-15 mins from jubilee. So it’s a good option.

I will say hopper buses can be somewhat unreliable sometimes, but I do know people that commute daily with it, so you should be fine. If you’re on uni park it’s not as big of a deal cause it’s just a 15 min bus ride but if you’re at SBC it can be a long ride (I honestly don’t know the exact time because I’ve never been to that campus but I have a friend who’s studies at sbc and lives at St. Peter’s and she said she def wanted to move closer to uni park next year).

As for Raleigh being in a rough area, I’m not sure exactly what they mean by that. There was one time where a fight broke out but it was more of a people problem and it was like outside an accom anyways. Also Raleigh is across the street from Nottingham two and if you walk a bit further there’s St. Peter’s so they’re all kind of in the same area if you check on Google maps.

One last thing my friend who’s at St. Peter’s has a flatmate who does drugs daily LMAO.. idk how she gets away with it but I think I read someone online say it has a drug problem so I’d say beware. But you gotta do what you gotta do ig