<p>I've been looking at Berkeley's housing page, and everything seems too crowded and too expensive. I don't want housing specifically for transfer students, but I also don't want to room with a freshmen . . . or do I?? Would a university-owned apartment or townhouse two blocks from campus be dead? If food isn't included in apartment prices, then why are they so damn expensive? Who the hell has $17,000 a year to spend on housing alone? So many questions . . . Have any of you figured anything out?</p>
<p>my friend has an apartment up there and her two roommates are moving out so she needs two more for her senior year. it just so happens that my bestfriend and I (her friend as well) were accepted. off campus here i come.</p>
<p>there are tons of apartments around campus and they are NOT dead…There are students everywhere and food everywhere for reasonable prices! I live in an apartment about a 5 minute walk from the units. It’s great. It costs us 900/month for a one bedroom apartment that could easily be shared between two people. It’s not bad at all.</p>
<p>Off-campus. I need to find a place that accepts pets (I want to bring my little dog). My ideal situation would be to find an old person (or couple) that wants to rent out a room to me. If I cannot find that, I will have to look long and hard for a roommate that is good with dogs, is quiet and clean. Tall order, huh?</p>
<p>I know it would be cheapest/easiest? to rent an apartment close to campus, but for my first year I was really planning to live on-campus. Plus it’ll be my first time on my own and I don’t want to live alone. I suppose I could call up everyone I knew from high school that’s attending Berkeley and ask where they’re living. . . Tis worrisome. I think a 12-month lease at Channing Bowditch sounds like my best bet.</p>
<p>Yeah. I was just looking at the page and it’s about $700 a month for an apartment where I have to share a crowded bedroom. Free internet, basic cable, and fully furnished, but it seems rather cramped, and just one bathroom for 4 people. I was hoping to find something more reasonable. Off campus neighborhoods suck though. I am going to have to research this more thoroughly in the next couple weeks because their on-campus options that they have on their website suck.</p>
<p>^ omg you will get so many parking tickets. I got like 20 for the past year I’ve lived here and that’s WITH paying 100 bucks a month for a garage already…
My bf got at least 100 parking tickets, and he has his own garage too… parking is crazy in Berkeley …haha
and you car WILL get dents here and there since the town is so cramped</p>
<p>I’m really nervous about housing! I really want to live in a dorm, since I have heard it is much better for your social life… But: I’ve heard that you don’t often end up getting your first (or second) choice. I’m 23 and am nervous about living in a small room with 2 other people… what other options are there?? Is living off campus a killer for your social life? Where is the best place to live off campus?</p>
<p>exactly, people have been saying that dorms are better for transfers because we get a first hand experience of how living in an actual “college” would feel like. but no.1 it’s expensive no.2 the rooms are so small!</p>
<p>ITA about the expense. I am totally blown away by how much Berkeley charges to live on-campus. Some of them are $17k/year. ***? Even UCLA doesn’t charge that amount. I realize that the bay area is one of the most expensive areas in the country, but they are really pushing it.</p>
<p>Pootie. No, you can’t bring your pets. I already asked b/c I’m bringing my dog with me too. It’s off-camous for us, which I think is going to be a blessing in disguise.</p>
<p>why do you say that?? I am kind of nervous that I will get home sick on an offcampus apartment and I really do not know anyone that goes there which is why I want to live in a dorm. DID anyone happen to make a fall 2009 berkeley transfer group?</p>