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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 1 มี.ค. 2023
- Curious about how much students living in London spend in a week? UCL History student Nola is here to give you the breakdown.
"London can be quite an expensive city to live in and an aspect that should be taken into account when deciding if UCL (or any other London uni) is the one for you. From my perspective, I am so grateful to be able to live here because, true to the stereotype, there is tons to do here, lots to eat, and plenty of academic/career opportunities. Which I suppose comes at a cost. Now it seems like most students spend around £100 a week, not including rent but I definitely have friends who spend less, maybe around £30 a week. Also not mentioned in this video, but I also have friends with part-time jobs in customer service and online tutoring.” Nola Mak
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Video Chapters:
0:08 - Intro
0:50 - Rent/Accommodation
1:32 - Interview with Adam
2:06 - Groceries/Eating Out
3:14 - Interview with Chloe
3:33 - Travel within London
4:45 - Interview with Jessica
5:13 - Socialising
6:00 - Recording your expenses
6:28 - UCL Student’s Responses and Outro
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I'd say if you want to go to pubs or bars, order takeout every once in a while, eat some snacks, travel to Brighton or somewhere like that once a month or two and enjoy some of the societies and events UCL offers (paying for sports, events etc.) You're easily looking at 700£ pm (and I'd say that's still quite optimistic). Saving is easy but below a certain threshold, you just have to give up a lot of the fun you could otherwise have. London is an expensive city, so remember that with the same budget, other cities are just more enjoyable. 80£ pw definitely sounds like a very low budget if you want to add any fun activities that require payments. A night out will cost you from 10£ (two beers at a pub) to 40£ (night in la Scala, drinks, maybe Five guys). Add some food on campus and groceries during the week and it's way past a 100.
£85 pw sounds really unreasonable.
£15-20 on groceries per week is difficult to stick to especially if you include the occasional snacks/drinks. £25-30 is more reasonable.
It is very difficult to find a flat near campus (maybe not even possible anymore) for that kind of budget and if you are further out from campus and can't walk you will be paying around £20 a week extra at least if you are taking the tube (with the railcard discount and bear in mind that the discount only applies at off-peak times) and around £17 extra if you are taking the bus. Being further away from campus does not necessarily guarantee significantly lower rent either unless you are willing to spend an hour a day commuting.
When you add the irregular costs like having to buy a new pair of shoes, clothes, the travel costs to go and get these, haircut, medicine, friends' birthdays, tickets to go back home or away for a couple of days etc. your average costs go even higher.
I'm not sure if the bills were included in the rent cost but if not you need to add around £10-15 per week with this depending on the time of the year. You will be paying more for heating and electricity in winter.
So, if you are making all your meals at home and don't mind spending time commuting etc. you can save a lot of money by compromising on your time and fun. But then what's the point of being in London?
Eating out is a familiar issue, trying to balance between £15 meals and 50p ramen LOL!
IDC none of you even worked for your own money
not everyone who goes there is rich this uni was made to help underprivileged people too
@@evotr1p622 you keep thinking that kid
@@evotr1p622 Ever been so triggered about the truth?
Im a first year at UCL right now and I had a contextual offer. I'm a home student, I come from a household under 30K. I worked manual labour all summer to save up £2000 for the year and then got the UCL bursary to help pay for my Oyster card. So no, not everyone there is rich.
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