Whether you’re a brand new sparkling Fresher or a wiser Third Year, you can track down everything you may need from Cityvisitor in Hull – from letting agents to cheap furniture stores, book shops to sporting equipment.

It’s also a great place to find fancy dress outfits, for all those nights where you can’t believe you really have to look that ridiculous, not forgetting takeaways when you get a bit peckish later on in the evening…

There is no doubt about it, Hull doesn’t have the best of reputations and has even been voted the worst place to live in recent years.

(Slightly better news last year though – we were second from bottom)

We constantly appear at the bottom of education league tables, Humberside police struggles to climb up the ranks and the national coverage of the horrific flooding of Hull won’t have exactly drawn in the tourists.

So is it true? Is Hull the worst place to live?

We have all heard the complaints (you’ll hear some in this blog), but I genuinely think Hull is one of the best cities in Yorkshire and is on the rise. We have an historic old town centre, beautiful buildings and old pubs, fantastic sporting facilities and an excellent University that really puts Hull on the map.

We have a new £160m St Stephen’s Shopping Centre, The Deep (which has already attracted over 2 million visitors), and what’s more, property that is cheap as chips – just as well with all that fish.

In our defence - unlike most cities - we don’t have the wealthier suburbs to prop up our results, which can partly explain our league table performance, and I also think the flooding showed just how resilient and community-minded our residents are.

So, with a £1.5million cash injection in the last five years, Hull has gone from strength to strength. It really gets unfair press when dubbed one of the worst places to visit, and try as you might, I doubt you’ll be able to persuade me otherwise.