help - I want to move to my own place but can I afford too?

top_drawer_2

timberflake wrote: »

Have you considered getting another part time job to top up your hours?

Also, what about a bed sit/studio apartment, thats about as cheap as living on your own can get!!

Yes, I had another job for awhile but it didnt work out. I am looking for another or a 30 hr a week job. I have ticked that box on the housing assoc application form.

Jen

Fang_3

top_drawer wrote: »

I have never mentioned the state paying for anything! You are an judgemental jumped up idiot and I am going to put you on ignore as so far you have contributed the total amount of squat useful information.

Jen

Who do you think would be subsidizing your flat?

You may wonder why you have trouble in house shares, the answer is looking back at you in the mirror.

top_drawer_2

Pixiechic wrote: »

Hi,

I can empathise with your situation as when I was studying I too lived in a houseshare and even after I finished studying! This was not through choice, it was what I could afford. Although I always got on well with my housemates it can get to you, just not having the space and peace.
From what I gather you are still studying and will find it difficult to afford a place of your own. Even if you do find a job with more hours and more money, I wonder if you will still struggle financially. It's worth working out if the extra time and stress trying to work, study and afford your own place will hinder your studies. How long have you got left of your degree?
Do you think a move to a different houseshare could be an option? Many houseshares are completely different, could it just be this one that is just not suitable for you? I doubt that as a student you would be eligable for financial assistance as if that were the case most students would be sat in there own flats! That is what your student loan is for if you have one and I know that at the best of times its not a huge amount to live on often having to be topped up with working.

I too get along with them to a point but I am sick of never having some peace from them. I am only going to be a student for another month or so and really cant wait hence I am looking now to move and then it can be asap after they are finished.

Jen

myothercarisaferrari

are you in preston? Perhaps being a lodger is the way to go, have a look on roommate.com or spareroom.com

my best mate lives in London and found a flatshare where the guy is away for 3 weeks at a time, back a week, then gone for 3 weeks etc....she loves it x

Pixiechic

When you finish studying you should be entitled to housing benefit but I think you might need to move into the flat and then apply. I am not sure about housing benefit as I have never had it but someone with more knowledge about that may come on and advise.
Good luck and I hope you find somewhere with some peace and quiet.

Fang_3

Angelic wrote: »

Are you always so rude and unhelpful? Why not calm down and find a better hobby than hounding people asking for advice.


OP , do you not have any friends you could rent with?

Generally I am. I find that I only say what others say, but I cut down on the happy hippy claptrap. If you read some of the OP's other threads, you'll see that she's asked this question several times before, on a higher income and has been given the same response. For some reason it doesn't appear to be sinking in.

I'm also curious as to how the OP will be a graduate when she finishes her course in a month, but wasn't at University in March, and said that it would be unlikely that she was.

myothercarisaferrari

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