Posted by alexandra_k on April 26, 2020, at 3:22:47
In reply to fun fun fun, posted by alexandra_k on April 26, 2020, at 3:10:16
it is interesting to consider accommodation expenses.
i mean...
imagine you got offered university places at a bunch of different universities...
but then you had to fund accommodation.
in chapel hill... or in NYC...
so Auckland is most expensive for accommodation (our big city) with probably Wellington next behind (the cool capital) and with Dunedin notoriously cheap (but of course the elite residential halls priced comparably to Auckland).
So it turns out that Waikato and Massey told their studnets 'go home'. So they don't charge their students, since their students (in the cheaper regions, admittedly) were told to go home.
But the students in Auckland were given a choice:
You can stay in your accommodation. You will have to stay in your room (with no bathroom - that's shared maybe 16 rooms to a floor. with no food storage space... but we might post a food parcel outside your room 3x a day as your meal plan... and you have no balcony... and maybe 1 washer and dryer per 50 people...) or... you can violate the conditions of your contract. So we want you to pay x amount... Or you are in violation of your contract in which case you owe us x amount...
Because they are nasty nasty f*ck*ng nasty people to do business with.
That's why.
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