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why couldn't they find cheaper or nicer accommodations?
I don't know. Chinese etc. students are such a cash cow over here that some universities have special programmes just for them, and the accommodation maybe comes as part of a package. The Korean guy's parents were paying for everything anyway, so he didn't seem to care that he was clearly being ripped off.
I don't know. Chinese etc. students are such a cash cow over here that some universities have special programmes just for them, and the accommodation maybe comes as part of a package. The Korean guy's parents were paying for everything anyway, so he didn't seem to care that he was clearly being ripped off.
they're not here, because the universities charge rich (and often not so rich) american students the same very high rates. what is a norma 1 bedroom rent there
they're not here, because the universities charge rich (and often not so rich) american students the same very high rates. what is a norma 1 bedroom rent there
I'm talking about a room in what you would call a dorm, not a whole apartment. If I remember rightly he had an en-suite but still had to share a kitchen. I think he was paying about twice the going rate, and in those days universities were allowed to charge non-European foreigners about four times more than domestic / European ones as well, so about £12,000 / $20,000 a year before rent?
For a 1-bedroom place in central London in one of the newer buildings £350-500 a week probably is the norm - no doubt a lot of those complexes aim at the super-rich foreign student market as well.
The student dorms in the picture I posted are mostly 18 m2 small, some don't have a stove so you have to cook in the common kitchen found on each floor, but they are fairly cheap, around €270 a month, with the same uni internet connection I use, which is free. Electricity and water is as well free.
But beats shared living, as I did in Helsinki. We had a 75 m2 4-room apartment and it was hell. The other flatmate made terribly-smelling food and the other one had parties at night when I was going to work the next morning.
In Turku the price level is quite affordable. I live in an uni-owned 30 m2 studio and the rent is €420, internet is free. Typical 60's blocks, but a nice neighbourhood 10-15 min to the centre biking.
The student dorms in the picture I posted are mostly 18 m2 small, some don't have a stove so you have to cook in the common kitchen found on each floor, but they are fairly cheap, around €270 a month, with the same uni internet connection I use, which is free. Electricity and water is as well free.
But beats shared living, as I did in Helsinki. We had a 75 m2 4-room apartment and it was hell. The other flatmate made terribly-smelling food and the other one had parties at night when I was going to work the next morning.
In Turku the price level is quite affordable. I live in an uni-owned 30 m2 studio and the rent is €420, internet is free. Typical 60's blocks, but a nice neighbourhood 10-15 min to the centre biking.
I'm sorry but i've no idea how many square feet that is.
Another stupid American has taken over the World, European and UK forums.
Yeah what is it with him?!
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