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Socrates In Paris- accommodation??

Papillon87 · 2007-03-28 20:21:13

Hey Have been accepted to attend Sorbonne next year on Socrates, along with two people I'm friendly with. Have no idea what to do about accommodation, everything is so expensive. Any advice from people who've been?

28-03-2007 8:21pm

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Hey
Have been accepted to attend Sorbonne next year on Socrates, along with two people I'm friendly with. Have no idea what to do about accommodation, everything is so expensive. Any advice from people who've been?

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No idea myself... if you don't get any responses, you might want to try the Abroad forum.

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#3 29-03-2007 9:55am

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This year, I have a friend from school (now in UCD), who's on SOCRATES in Paris with two of his classmates this year. They're all in the Unversité de Paris, with one in the Sorbonne part. They went over to France during the summer for a week to look for somewhere to live. I think their search involved poring through the callsified pages of Parisian newspapers. They found a lovely place in the city centre on Rue Bertin Poirée in the Chatelet district. It's a fifth-floor two-bed apartment in a big old house. It's really convenient to everything you could want: shops, cinemas, drinking establishemnts, etc. I went to visit my friend during Reading Week and he was saying that they were really lucky to have found somewhere so good at whatever rate of rent they're paying. However, he said most students end up in very small apartments in the suburbs, necessitating a long commute, if you're attending college in the city centre. I think it's a good idea to be willing to pay a bit more, if you didn't have to commute or whatever. If you have any questions, PM me, and I'll pass them on to my friend, whose reponses to my e-mails have been a bit late of late, but nevertheless.

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