student loan and living fees- is this about right?

Yeah, it's the 16-25 railcard

50 is more than enough, food will only be half of it and the rest easily pays for clothes and toiletries and a phone contract

It depends on your lifestyle and the kind of environment you were brought up in. £50 is nothing to some but ALOT to others. Depends what you spend on a day to day basis, like i spend about £3 in starbucks every morning and then £5 at lunch at a fastfood place (sixth form canteen sucks) but you might prefer homemade tea and homemade sandwiches and therefore you save more then me.

Its crazy that £50 is nothing for me to survive on as I spend that in couple days.
I'd normally survive on £75-85/week easily because I'm about that life but
considering I don't go binge drinking every weekend/drinking in general it kinda makes up for it.
Do you think it would work out cost wise with the approach given above? ^


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lol I'd definitely prefer to get a starbucks and buy lunch every day, but I grew up in a house where that kind of spending meant you couldn't afford the bills. Some things stick with you for life.

No alot of people genuinely would prefer homemade things - Plus i get what you mean, i was merely referring that to illustrate my point. Its the same with things like the gym, some people might have a £40 a month Fitness First Membership others might have a £15 Pure Gym membership or even cheaper run in the local park.

My point was that no one can really guide how much money is enough as it depends on someones spending habits.

Oh I know that, was just saying. I love them starbucks frappobeetus drinks :P But the cost of buying them regularly, to me anyway is madness.

I tend to stick with the old Mocha Frap and yeah they are ridiculous, my sixth form is strategically placed just before a starbucks and the wifi in their is MUCH better than our common room. I hope there is not one outside my uni as it will definitely be hard to resist.

No alot of people genuinely would prefer homemade things - Plus i get what you mean, i was merely referring that to illustrate my point. Its the same with things like the gym, some people might have a £40 a month Fitness First Membership others might have a £15 Pure Gym membership or even cheaper run in the local park.

My point was that no one can really guide how much money is enough as it depends on someones spending habits.

I'm actually at Durham atm so I thought I'd jump in and give advice. (What college btw?)
Are you self-catered? The vast majority of Durham accomodation is catered so you don't need to worry about food, and £50 a week is loads for everything else.

If you do have to buy food then I spend about £20 a week on food and I reckon I'm reasonably stingy but don't have a terrible diet. Maybe £30 tops then any left over is for nights out/ whatever you want.

Most of the colleges have their own gym which has stupidly cheap membership, but it depends on the college.
There's also a uni gym but you wouldn't be able to afford it on £50 a week if you had to buy food too.

Another thing to bear in mind is that the terms at Durham are really, really short- 11 weeks, 8 weeks, 8 weeks if I remember correctly including freshers- that's only 27 weeks total, just over half a year.

I'm also slightly confused as to how you got £50 a week more than the student loan when the maximum student loan is less than the price of accomodation at Durham starting next year. There's been loads of protests about it.