Assuming he was at Oxford ("That's where they make Gileses!") he would live "in College", and very likely would have a small suite of rooms to himself, his "set", and a "scout" who would come in and clean for him, even make his bed. It's slightly less luxurious now, I believe, but Giles was a student in the 70s, when my brother was at Oxford and in the richer colleges at least students could "live in" all three years of their course (that is, have a room or set in the College buildings.)
Oxford doesn't have a campus as such, because it's been in the town for around eight centuries and the colleges grew up in and around the rest of town. Students mostly get around on bicycles or walk, because it's all pretty concentrated, but with a busy industrial city and major shopping centre sort of intersecting with it. Cambridge, Durham and several of the major Scottish universities operate in much the same way.
I didn't mean to be nasty, BTW, just thought you'd like to know. Giles learns some American while he's in Sunnydale, but he's still pretty British. We do stuff differently. ;-)
I hope you don't mind, but I'm friending you. We BtVS fans need to stick together, a decade after AtS ended. (How can that possibly be?)
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Date: 2014-05-19 09:33 am (UTC)Oxford doesn't have a campus as such, because it's been in the town for around eight centuries and the colleges grew up in and around the rest of town. Students mostly get around on bicycles or walk, because it's all pretty concentrated, but with a busy industrial city and major shopping centre sort of intersecting with it. Cambridge, Durham and several of the major Scottish universities operate in much the same way.
I didn't mean to be nasty, BTW, just thought you'd like to know. Giles learns some American while he's in Sunnydale, but he's still pretty British. We do stuff differently. ;-)
I hope you don't mind, but I'm friending you. We BtVS fans need to stick together, a decade after AtS ended. (How can that possibly be?)