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I've been currently living in a boarding house while I attend college since last September... I live about 300km away from home now.
The thing is, this boarding house is pretty expensive, it's $500 a month. They say meals are included, but they use the term "meal" very loosely. Breakfast is a bowl of cereal. School lunch is a tuna sandwitch, EVERY DAY. And the cooked dinner is always really, really bland (the owner has diabetes pretty bad, his wife has to cook for all of us based on HIS diet), and small portions.
I end up buying a lot of groceries myself, because of this. There are 2 other boarders here, and we all live in the semi-renovated basement "apartment", cluttered with their junk they don't want upstairs. However, it is not really an apartment, because we have to live down here as if we were living upstairs... No visitors, quiet hours, no alcohol... The place is also pretty cramped. In short, I cannot see myself staying here much longer. It could be worse I suppose, but it is DEFINATELY not great either, not very enjoyable.
A few weeks ago, my friend, who rents a 3-bedroom house with two other people, said that two of his roommates do not have intersession, so they will be moving out, and he has to fill the spots. The rent is $350/month including heat/light. The house is old'ish, but it is not run down, I've been in it a few times, and doesn't seem that bad. The only problem is that it has no furniture... There's a couch and a table with chairs and stuff, but the bedrooms are completely bare. I don't know how I could get my bedroom stuff 300KM out here... Besides that, I will be home for the summer, and I would have to drag it BACK home after. A 3 hour drive for this stuff seems very inconvenient.
Anyone have any suggestions? What do you think I'm better off with?
The thing is, this boarding house is pretty expensive, it's $500 a month. They say meals are included, but they use the term "meal" very loosely. Breakfast is a bowl of cereal. School lunch is a tuna sandwitch, EVERY DAY. And the cooked dinner is always really, really bland (the owner has diabetes pretty bad, his wife has to cook for all of us based on HIS diet), and small portions.
I end up buying a lot of groceries myself, because of this. There are 2 other boarders here, and we all live in the semi-renovated basement "apartment", cluttered with their junk they don't want upstairs. However, it is not really an apartment, because we have to live down here as if we were living upstairs... No visitors, quiet hours, no alcohol... The place is also pretty cramped. In short, I cannot see myself staying here much longer. It could be worse I suppose, but it is DEFINATELY not great either, not very enjoyable.
A few weeks ago, my friend, who rents a 3-bedroom house with two other people, said that two of his roommates do not have intersession, so they will be moving out, and he has to fill the spots. The rent is $350/month including heat/light. The house is old'ish, but it is not run down, I've been in it a few times, and doesn't seem that bad. The only problem is that it has no furniture... There's a couch and a table with chairs and stuff, but the bedrooms are completely bare. I don't know how I could get my bedroom stuff 300KM out here... Besides that, I will be home for the summer, and I would have to drag it BACK home after. A 3 hour drive for this stuff seems very inconvenient.
Anyone have any suggestions? What do you think I'm better off with?