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Average Weekly Expenditure

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  • 27-05-2013 4:17pm
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    jamo2oo9
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    Hi all,

    I'm about to head into college next year, UL is my first choice followed by DCU and I was just wondering what would be the average weekly expenditure that students have when it comes to paying water, electricity, rent, food, transport and social life. I'm thinking it would be approx E150 per week or have I gone a little too high?


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    Gael23
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    Rent in UL will be about €300 a month including bills . For me food is about €40 a week, transport depends on length of journey but wont be much more than €20 a week. Social life can cost as much or little as you want so tjats up to yourself.
    500 a month will be enough but you wont have a huge amount for socialising


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    Annasopra
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    DIT do quite a good cost of living guide

    http://www.dit.ie/campuslife/studentsupport/costoflivingguide/

    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

    Terry Pratchet



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    jamo2oo9
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    For your transport, is that by public services or your own car?


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    Gael23
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    jamo2oo9 wrote: »
    For your transport, is that by public services or your own car?

    What I said would be by bus. It would be more if you had a car


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    jamo2oo9
    Registered Users Posts: 5,780 ✭✭✭jamo2oo9


    I thought so, it was a little low for it to be a car. Don't have plans to get a car within the next 12 months as it's too dear but maybe I can afford one in my second year. Thanks for the idea!


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    Denis322
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    A couple weeks ago during a meeting we were all given a little booklet on college, which included a cost of living section. It compared the price of living at home and living away, and gave average rent prices for the different counties etc. The cost of living away added up to about €8,000 a year, near enough to the one mango salsa put up from DIT.


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