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Browsing through my uni's webpages I saw them recommending international students to have at the least 5700 pounds to live for, for a year of uni (excluding summer vacation I think). This amount would exclue tuitions fees, travel fees to get to and from Sheffield from one's home country, rent, coursematerials etc.
Now, I was just wondering, how much money are you guys surviving on?
Cause I just think that this amount of money is extremely high when thinking about the fact that it equals to 7 months or so. It's a little under a grand a month. And while I know it's easy to spend that much. Then I believe that it's perfectly okay to spend much less than that, and still come out alright with no lack of social-life or food.
Personally I am not really sure how much I have been using so far. Manage through 3 accounts, which complicates matters.
Now, I was just wondering, how much money are you guys surviving on?
Cause I just think that this amount of money is extremely high when thinking about the fact that it equals to 7 months or so. It's a little under a grand a month. And while I know it's easy to spend that much. Then I believe that it's perfectly okay to spend much less than that, and still come out alright with no lack of social-life or food.
Personally I am not really sure how much I have been using so far. Manage through 3 accounts, which complicates matters.
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Most people survive at Uni on much less than that!
I'm Scottish...so I don't even have to pay tuition fees. Thank God.
And I'm at Edinburgh...fecking second most expensive city in the UK, dammit!
And I'm so poor... I really don't fit in there. But nevermind.
The rest? I honestly dread to think. It's not like you can't live cheaply in Sheffield though. I could quite easily get by on about £80 a week including rent, food and bills. I just choose not to. If you're paying more than £60 a week for rent, i'd suggest you're being ripped off. There are awesome houses available for less, especially if you're sharing. Seriously, i can't see why anyone would need to spend that much....
I get £4695 a year, of which £2400 goes on rent, so £2,300 a year odd on food and drink and transport.
oh my dear god. you pay more than triple what i pay a week in rent.
when i've run out i get money from my parents.
that reminds me i was going to make a resolution this year to learn how to budget.
also, when i went to france i got a loan of 5000. i didn't have to pay any tuition fees and i got about 2000 of which i didnt have to pay any of it back. (erasmus).
(p.s. my pound sign doesnt work).
Probably sounds like I have alot of money to live on but I use my car quite a bit and I guess I don't budget as much as I could on food, going out and associated drugs and alcohol. I also have an unhealthy obsession with clothes and shoe shopping. So yeah, I've still ended up thousands of pounds in debt, even though I work my ass off every holiday.
There's even a space to put in your shoe expenditure- 'priority debts' lol
I have about £6,500 a year to live on I guess, including rent, bills, tuition fees etc.