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Living on BTEA

DJW11 · 2012-02-15 20:06:13

Hi all, not sure if this has been covered but I couldnt find any threads. As the title says Im just wondering from mature students in 3rd level now, how they find it living on BTEA?, I mean for example if you are renting a room in a house share and its 80/90 a week, how do you find living the week on around 15 euro a day?…

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15-02-2012 9:06pm

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DJW11

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Hi all,

not sure if this has been covered but I couldnt find any threads. As the title says Im just wondering from mature students in 3rd level now, how they find it living on BTEA?, I mean for example if you are renting a room in a house share and its 80/90 a week, how do you find living the week on around 15 euro a day? Or is it a must to have to find much cheaper accommodation?

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#2 18-02-2012 6:08pm
Gingernuts31

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My wife is on the BTEA and renting 30 mins drive from college. She has her rent, heating, elec, food, petrol, day trips for college. 1 advantage she has tho is that she is also working Min 2 days a week so the extra money is needed. If you had no bills as in loans or credit cards, mortgage etc you could live on it alright but you mortgage and loans plus the other stuff I mentioned it would be very tough if you didn't have any other income.

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