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No this is very unlikely. A month subway pass is $90, rent depends on where you want to live. If you want to be close to campus the only way you will have a monthly rent as cheap as about $800 is if you share the apartment with several roommates. Many people I know in the city pay 1000+ a month. Food is also decently expensive.
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You have two options:
1) Live like a student. Sure you're in New York, but every cent you spend now will equal 3 cents when you have to pay it back. I budget myself $100/week and I live pretty comfortably. I also have a tiny room near school for $750/mo (rare!!! but doable).
2) Enjoy New York while you're here. You can eat out every night and try the food/bar/club scene since you're in New York for a short time. Drinks are priced based on where you go ($200+ bottles for clubs. $1 beers at the neighborhood watering hole) but eating out will cost you. I have a friend who tries to go to a nice restaurant once a month and runs up multiple hundreds of dollar tabs for a single meal. But hey, you're only in the city for a short time.
There's also a happy medium somewhere in the middle. Enjoy the city but mind your wallet. Live further from school and commute so you have cheaper rent and can splurge a little more on fun things. You'll figure it out.
1) Live like a student. Sure you're in New York, but every cent you spend now will equal 3 cents when you have to pay it back. I budget myself $100/week and I live pretty comfortably. I also have a tiny room near school for $750/mo (rare!!! but doable).
2) Enjoy New York while you're here. You can eat out every night and try the food/bar/club scene since you're in New York for a short time. Drinks are priced based on where you go ($200+ bottles for clubs. $1 beers at the neighborhood watering hole) but eating out will cost you. I have a friend who tries to go to a nice restaurant once a month and runs up multiple hundreds of dollar tabs for a single meal. But hey, you're only in the city for a short time.
There's also a happy medium somewhere in the middle. Enjoy the city but mind your wallet. Live further from school and commute so you have cheaper rent and can splurge a little more on fun things. You'll figure it out.
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I've been keeping an excel sheet of how much I spend (eating out, groceries, transportation, etc) and on average for me it is:
$200 for groceries
$350 for eating out
$40 for transportation (includes cab and MTA). I live one block from campus.
$300 for extraneous like plastic teeth, amazon, phone bill, etc.
$200 for groceries
$350 for eating out
$40 for transportation (includes cab and MTA). I live one block from campus.
$300 for extraneous like plastic teeth, amazon, phone bill, etc.
