Yeah you could go and live in a student area when you get a job, as long as you can accept that you're NOT a student, you'll be working - HARD - and the last thing you'll want is to be kept awake at night by people coming back from clubs etc at 3 or 4 in the morning, and that that is most likely what will happen a few times a week.
Once you've left uni, you've left. Especially being a pilot which requires you to work odd and unsociable hours, it is unrealistic to think that having finished training you can then go and soak up the student lifestyle - you can't, you've missed the boat.
Your mates, won't have a job as soon, but they won't look back in a few years and realise that when they should have been enjoying themselves and getting out in the world, they were training full time and are now stuck in a career which gives them no leeway for the next 40 years.
And of course, that CV is going to look awfully bare...