<p>do any of you live in an apartment? how does it compare to living on campus? is it harder to get to school/parking/getting groceries and cooking? idk im sort of confused about trying to figure out living accomodations for next year. i dont have a car- but there are shuttles that run from the apartment complex to the school</p>
<p>any info would be great. thanks- bumble</p>
<p>If you live on campus you might get a mean RA, but if your roomie and you dont get along you can change rooms. If you get an apartment you can do whatever you want and have girls over all night, but if your roomies are no good, then you have to stay there for the whole year. And you could maybe take your pet from home to live in your apartment. It depends alot on where you go so its hard to say, but someone asks the same question every week. Look at the similar threads.</p>
<p>:) i will thanks. yeah idk tough decision tough decision.</p>
<p>Well what do most people at your school do? Here, most freshmen live in dorms, and then after freshman year they move to apartments and houses. I signed my lease for next year WAY before most people do (I signed it a few weeks ago when most people don’t sign until next semester, but the people I wanted to live with wanted an apartment building that is known as pretty desirable around here, so it fills up fast). Just shop around, try to find places close to campus. It’s hard to give a real recommendation without knowing the way your school is laid out. Groceries will probably be expensive, but depending if you have a meal plan, it could be cheaper, esp. if you’re living with a few people. It also could be cheaper than a dorm. Mine works out to about the same price as a dorm per month, and that’s for an extremely nice building. Most people pay a lot less than a dorm. But like I said, without knowing the specifics of your school, it’s almost impossible to give you real advice.</p>
<p>Groceries would actually probably be cheaper than the meal plan… meal plans are sooooo overpriced for what you’re getting, and groceries in general are much cheaper than going out to eat or eating on campus (meal plans are probably at least 10 bucks per meal that they give you, and no wayyyyyyyy do you spend 10 dollars in groceries on a single meal [or if you do, you’re doing it wrong]).</p>
<p>Get a 1br, no room mate, as far away from campus as possible to avoid the higher rents.</p>