Luxury college living

Studios starting at $1800 per month.

Get out the credit card, dad!

not this. I was in the freshman dorms as a frosh, ate at the dining hall mainly, moved off campus into a cheap one bedroom (I think i paid $225 a month!) then moved to a nicer one bedroom in a cool part of town for the rest of the time.

Dorms the 1st year. The second year I had my own apartment. It was a two bedroom and I had almost no furniture. I'd sit on the floor of the second bedroom and masturbate to porn on my laptop. That's all I used that room for.

Freshman year I lived in the standard freshman dorm with one roommate, bathroom down the hall. Sophomore/Junior years I lived with three other guys in a 2 bedroom on-campus apartment. Senior year and for one year afterwards, one of my roommates and I got a small 2 bedroom apartment off-campus.*

*This was back in the 90s when cheap apartments were still a thing. Today, that same apartment would be totally unaffordable for two college students with part-time jobs. We were the last generation who could afford to live like that.

Brown owned something like this (not sure if they still do) off-campus in downtown Providence for higher profile students if they want to pay for privacy. Emma Watson was one resident.

When I was in school in the 1970’s, I shared a two-bedroom off-campus apartment. We paid $160 a month (total) for rent. Those days are long gone.

I work on a college campus, and a bunch of this type of place have popped up all around town in the past five or so years. They all have names like "The Yards," "The Cabins" and "The Retreat."

They look acceptable on the outside, and the common areas are nice enough to make parents feel OK about their kids living there, but the actual living spaces are shoddy beyond belief. Most kids wind up in four bedroom units with each bedroom including a ting bathroom (think cruise-ship type showers) with a common kitchen and living area. The fixtures are all cheap and getting things repaired is a near impossibility.

They are "Churn and Burn" properties...one student moves out and another gets moved in with no painting or carpeting done in between.

I hear complaints about them from my students all the time.

Geez. When I attended Ohio State for grad school in the early 1990s, I rented a charming & very spacious 3 bedroom + 2 bath apartment (almost 1700 square feet !) in Victorian Village with two friends from my program for $625/month.

r7 those days are long gone.