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Originally Posted by The Moocher
felix wtf are you doing living in a place like that anyways?
Location is excellent (walking distance to everything). I have a pretty high tolerance for general life-related bull****, such as dealing with idiot frat bros. The arrangement is decent; I have my own room in a kind-of-separate building (it's built into the main house, but has no access to it, and a separate entrance to the outside). Noise generally isn't an issue, and even on the rare occasion when it gets noisy, my little shack-thing has pretty good sound insulation, and noise doesn't bother me when I'm sleeping.
Really it's the location/price/situation combo. The price (rent $535 a month) is decent for one person at that location. The area is mostly older single-family homes converted to student housing; there aren't
that many options for one person to rent - if you want a one-bedroom apartment it's either farther away from campus, or recent construction tailored to students living off daddy's trust fund (think rooftop pool, etc.). There are
some other options, but they're limited. If I had another person or two I could get a similar or better rate, but none of my friends here were interested in moving into the student ghetto.
edit: campus parking is $600 a semester, that definitely entered into my financial planning. Unfortunately attempts at brutal anal rape on utilities didn't. My mistake.