Latest Poll: Accommodation

[JohnQPublic]

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Live in any major city, and your rent for one week will be equivalent to what you'd pay here in St Andrews in a month, and you'll get less space.

St Andrews' Uni accommodation is very reasonably priced, especially given the state of the present housing market. Quit whining.

They were making a loss of £550k p/a before the phased rises began in 2004.

Makes sense.

[munchingfoo]

What a load of shite.

I live in a two bedroom house in Edinburgh and my rent is £270 a month.

My rent in St Andrews was £280 a month for one room in a five bedroom house.


The losses they were making are easilly acredited to:

1. Old buildings.
2 Very Very Poor management.

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Tired Freudian references aside - your mother played my mighty skin flute like a surf crowned sea nymph trying to rouse Poseidon from his watery slumber!

[ka25]

In London you would pay that in a week though.

I still think uni accomodation was slightly overpriced though since you didn't have the freedom you have in your own flat (ie you were treated like children) and the food wasn't great.

Saying that though, I was quite happy to pay for it for 4 years

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[starsandsparkles]

Quoting JohnQPublic from 17:44, 16th May 2007
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Live in any major city, and your rent for one week will be equivalent to what you'd pay here in St Andrews in a month, and you'll get less space.

An ensuite room in halls at Imperial is only about £20 more a week than DRA is.

[bdw]

Quoting ka25 from 18:06, 16th May 2007
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Rent per person in a decent flat in London near the City is generally £160-£200/week. Spending £270/week on rent would be utter lunacy with the mortgage rates on offer.
When I started at St Andrews, the most expensive private tenancy I knew of was £60/week and the most expensive residence (New Hall catered) must have been about £50/week - what is it proposed to increase to now?

[Malcolm]

Quoting munchingfoo from 17:57, 16th May 2007
What a load of shite.

I live in a two bedroom house in Edinburgh and my rent is £270 a month.

Yeah, but what part of Edinburgh's that? If it's that cheap as well as habitable then I'm surprised. I've lived in Edinburgh all my days, property prices are getting out of hand.

[Fionnlagh]

I'm another person living in London, and finding it not significantly more expensive. I live 7 minutes from Canary Wharf, in a brand new building that is fitted to a very high standard, and there are flats in the building going for about £550 a month. I certainly know which I think would be better value

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[munchingfoo]

Yes, thats what it comes down to in the end - value.

St Andrean houses are not good value for money.

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Tired Freudian references aside - your mother played my mighty skin flute like a surf crowned sea nymph trying to rouse Poseidon from his watery slumber!

[novium]

But hasn't london managed to beat tokyo as the most expensive city in the world?

Quoting ka25 from 18:06, 16th May 2007
In London you would pay that in a week though.

I still think uni accomodation was slightly overpriced though since you didn't have the freedom you have in your own flat (ie you were treated like children) and the food wasn't great.

Saying that though, I was quite happy to pay for it for 4 years

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[MacMan]

The way I look at it, if you're not happy with price rises in halls then start selling hall property to pay for the rent!

[Gubbins]

The prices of accommodation in St Andrews is a reflection of the quality of service provided.

Those of you who have lived in other Universities' halls of residence will know that St Andreans get a far better service than most of their counterparts in other UK institutions. Thus, the rent is proportionally higher.

In the year 2001/2002, a single room in McIntosh was around £2200, meaning that since then there has been an average of 10% per annum increase above inflation. I have observed quality go up during my time there and subsequent years.

Chances are you're getting value for money (though probably not as much as I was). The question is whether the level of quality is required and wanted.

For a reasonably-fitted self-catered box room on campus down south, I'm paying £275/month. For that I get a rather measly space in a kitchen, a box, and a nice cleaner who comes in once a fortnight. It's not DRA, but it suits my needs.

I know others who have quite comfortable student flats in Edinburgh for £260-£270 a month on the south side of town, with prices in Marchmont and Morningside not much higher.

If you don't like the rent you're paying (which is ludicrous for a student budget), then get them to step down the quality of your halls.

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...then again, that is only my opinion.

[macgamer]

What people are forgetting is that if you study in London you get an addition £1000 loan in order to cover the inflated living costs.

[no longer in st a's]

I'm curious as to why no one seems to have considered organising a sit-in or similar to protest the high rental prices, seeing as it seems a pretty common opinion that they are far too high for what you actually get. You could at least demand the building of cheaper places in the future, rather than more and more DRA. Seems like one of the few things a large proportion of students actually agree about. And if nothing else, the uni wouldn't like the bad press.

[Guest]

I've seen student halls in London, and let me tell you, they're small. I mean, really small. "Ensuite" usually consists of a toilet bolted into the wall next to a shower head, with a concrete floor and standing room for one only. Even Sallies and Regs are palatial compared to that.

[WashingtonIrving]

To be honest I'd far sooner have affordable university accommodation than luxurious. Albany and Fife Park are cheap as dirt and there's nothing wrong with them (well, Albany certainly).

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[fluffy]

What is DRA now - about £500 a month? that's £125 a week!!

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[Raindog]

The cheapest houses for a major city is prob Dundee. And the music scene is buzzing accross thier what with the View and the law up and coming artists. I might just go back after all.