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• squaresinger@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Neither nor.

  I paid €350 for my flat and made €25/h doing tutoring. I had a monthly budget of €800 in 2015 and that was enough.

  I never received unemployment benefits and why on earth would someone invest in a random student?

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  • trashgirlfriend@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I think you just got extremely lucky, and it’s not exactly transferrable to most others especially today.

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    • squaresinger@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I don’t think that surviving on €800/month is extremely lucky. I know quite a few other people who also did that. I also know quite a few other people who just stayed with their parents during university so they didn’t have to work at all.

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      • trashgirlfriend@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Being able to live on 800€ a month isn’t that hard if you’re in a lower COL area, like a smaller town.

        What’s hard is making those 800€ while working 10 hours a week. I checked the tutoring prices in an area like that (my small central European hometown) and the only people charging 20+ eur per hour were people with decades of experience.

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  • pseudo@jlai.lu ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    When I compare to my own experience ajusted to inflation, that seems alright. Totally doable.

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