The university because the segregation of college from college, department from department, graduate from undergrad and the like makes meaningful collaboration impossible. The town because I'm paying more for a room here than I would for a house anywhere civilised, and the real estate agents are too good to even reply to your enquiries. The country because it's the middle of summer and it's fucking raining.

The library resources are inferior to my old university. I have to get my brother to email me articles I don't have access to.

I see my supervisor once a month at most. This was particularly problematic in my first year because I had to submit a thesis proposal on a topic the supervisor approved, and it's quite hard to formulate something together when he doesn't remember you exist.

From what I've seen of the teaching quality, it's very underwhelming. The professors don't care about that, they're just trying to crank out papers.

The other students seem alright, but the entire system seems set up to render any meaningful exchange of ideas impossible.