Away from home Uni Students (2 Viewers)

[Raiks]

Originally posted by Ziff
I'm guessing this place is in the northern suburbs (Woonona or north from there) in Wollongong?

Ridiculous rent!

I'm in Sydney, for at least the next 6 months anyways. I was looking at the Northern Suburbs in Wollongong and theres some pretty nice places around but the rent they were asking for was unbelievable. I'd love to move to the gong but I'm happy where I am because of its closeness to work.

 

[+Po1ntDeXt3r+]

rent - 147
food - 50
alcohol- 20
electricity, telephone ,internet -30
transport -free

i earn 90 a week so i pretti much pay only for rent.. ineligible for youth allowance by lik $1000/year ..

 

[TheKey]

$10 a week on food

holy hell, what do u eat man?

 

[Ziff]

I think he lives in a catered hall. So this is excess food like snacks and what not.

 

[braindrainedAsh]

Yeah Melby lives at st andrews which is catered...

Oh and Natstar, I made a typo. I meant to say closer to $16000 sorry!

From the centrelink website, just to clear that up.

You are considered independent if you are aged 16 or over and :

have been out of school at least 18 months and earned at least $15 990 in an 18 month period before lodging a claim

 

[Raiks]

Originally posted by miss_rachel
How do you go working with Uni? Does it stuff you up with assessments and stuff?

Not at all, works pretty good with that kind of stuff, If i've got assessments due and the like, work usually lets me finish 2 hours early to help get stuff done, and its a place where most of the people have done the course i'm doing so they're always willing to help out.

Working 4 days a week does prove a little hectic at times but they're really flexible with my studies because they say that my studies come first and work comes second.... but don't let top management hear that is happening

 

[LaZy_KoReAn]

Originally posted by melbournian
Exactly

All this time i thought you were a girl...

My bad...

 

[inasero]

Homestay = $190 week, but lunch is not provided.
Internet/Telephone = $30/week (shared)
Lunch is average $5/day. Therefore $35/week
Transport = $10/week on average.

That's the bare minimum...$265 (by the way these are costs of living in Melbourne).

Mannix college (just across road from Monash) is approx $260/week, with 3 meals a day and clean linen every week. Broadband + telephone included. The catch is that you have to buy Saturday dinner which is about 10 bucks, and do your own washing (about 5 bucks a week). So all up about $275/week (minimum) which ends up about the same.

 

[braindrainedAsh]

We have to pay $2 to use our dryers and washers and they don't hold big loads, so I spend about $8 a week on washing, it's so annoying.

 

[Dingo2004]

lol natstar u living at uni aye
lol i almost forgot..
so hows things?
got a room mate yet?
lol

 

[snakeoils]

i live in a 5 bedroomer @ Sydney Uni Village...

Rent: $140pw, inc water + elec
Village Food and Alcohol: $40
Groceries: $30 approx
Transport: $2.65 (a travel10 lasts me 2 weeks )
Miscellaneous: god knows, varies heavily from week to week... i'd say bout $30-$50


the key to cutting down on costs is splitting the cost of things with ur flatmates... makes everything much much cheaper...

 

[Mojoman]

i live on campus, its 208 bux a week, fully catered, but i dont pay for it
as far as other expenses go per week:
extra food - $10
alcohol - $30-40ish, on a non pub week.. if we go to the pub, it is about $60-70 :S
transport $5
sport - $10

 

[cheesegrater]

on campus...
$265 accom fully catered
$10 a week other food
$20 a week on booze
~$20 random stuff
the big expense is setup when you move out you will find there is all kinds of things you need to buy anything upto a grand if you need furniture and stuff.

 

[crazybrad]

rent with food on campus $181pw
spending money $100pw
phone/cable net $30pw
car $50pw
clothes and texts... ring parents or credit card.
so i guess about 20k a year and i live on campus for 30 weeks and at home 22weeks so maybe more, iu feel sorry 4 my parents

 

[Soma]

fark i spend about $150 a week and i live at home,
parents pay for food, clothes etc.
I dont know how it happens lol.

 

[*~Dazed~*]

your a fucken alcoholic thats why

 

[Soma]

 

[braindrainedAsh]

As someone above said, there are a lot of setting up costs when you move away. For me, I had to buy

-linen
-cookware (frypan, saucepan)
-dinner set/cutlery
-utensils
-laptop computer
-printer
-tv
-various other random things

and it cost a lot of money. So make sure you take all that in to consideration.

 

[Ziff]

Originally posted by natstar
i wish i had my own computer, UWS wont let us have MSN on the computers. I miss MSN *sobs*

http://www.msn2go.com

 

[Xayma]

No its a web based MSN so you dont need to download anything