Cambridge Chat (previously New Cambridge Students Entry 2004)

JHutcher

So what are the top tips on picking a room... there seems to be quite an extensive database... what are the features one should be looking at apart from rent? I am partial to large windows but past that i have no preference.

Try living in a hostel with 1000 other families in god forsaken south end and even that bottom pool position looks attractive...

Pick the one that says large. They normally have large windows... But comes with it, is a huge rent. Somewhere around 700 to 800 pounds per term.

Reply 13682

*shruggs* Thats not to bad... i will lower the cost by going miles from a bathroom. £2100-£2400 isn't so bad a year. Its about half my funding leaving me with about £100 a week... can one live on £100 a week (excluding book and materials)?

Reply 13683

Willa

hundred quid a week is plenty to live off. I currently live off about 50 quid a week max

Reply 13684

Willa

hundred quid a week is plenty to live off. I currently live off about 50 quid a week max

I spent less than that. If you ask Crana, she spent even less I did.

Reply 13685

well at least the money won't be a problem...

Reply 13686

JHutcher

well at least the money won't be a problem...

Shouldn't be. Crana spent about 3 quid in trough last term... and cooked the rest. Great....... I spent about 150.

Reply 13687

There once was a Pemguin from pembroke
Who wanted to learn to cook
He tried to bake Pemcake
But ended up instead
In frying his computing handbook.

Reply 13688

crana9

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my budget works out to £166 a week for everything. £119 of that is "non negotiable stuff" - rent/fees/bills - and £48 is estimates for everything else (food/clothes/books/toiletries/transport/going out/laundry/mobile etc etc). that's more than you need though, i over estimated all the catagories to be on the safe side when i was doing my budget.

Reply 13689

thats cool... rent fee and bills i excluded before leaving myself with £100

Reply 13690

crana9

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how much have you allowed for your rent and bills? do you know what they will be yet..

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