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To be clear: 500 € may be sufficient in smaller cities but not in Munich and other cities with high rents.

geff82 9y ago
As the diplomas in Germany count more or less as the same, you are free to choose a university at a place with lower renting costs like Leipzip, Koblenz or Greifswald. Your relatives may have to look on the map, but in everyday professional life (especially IT) it does not matter much. There are some preferred places for every field (KIT for IT in Karlsruhe, Business, Management in Mannheim, Engineering in Darmstadt...), but if you don't have or earn a lot of money, you have tons of good possibilities.
MarkMc 9y ago
A student visa allows the student to work 120 days per year. At minimum wage this is about EUR 720 per month. If the student allocates 40% to rent, that means 6 students could afford to pay EUR 1,228. Let's say 2 students per bedroom. Isn't it possible to rent a 3-bedroom home in Munich for EUR 1,228 per month?
- mschuster91 9y ago
  > Isn't it possible to rent a 3-bedroom home in Munich for EUR 1,228 per month? Good luck getting a flatshare these days. Landlords don't like it very much, because they associate flatshares ("Wohngemeinschaften"/"WGs") with noise complaints due to partying and trouble when one of the renters can't make rent. Also, 3-bedroom homes are already in scarce supply these days in Munich - any type of home is in scarce supply, and landlords will abuse this situation to pick only the most profitable (i.e. they pay their rent on time and don't generate complaints) kinds of renters: either DINKs (Double income, no kids - kids cause noise and thus complaints of neighors), or welfare clients where the Arbeitsamt pays the rent. Everyone else - low-income persons, families with kids, persons with their own company, persons on time-limited employment, persons with dogs (again, noise complaints), refugees, persons of non-German origin - is left to fight for the scraps. That there has been no build of "welfare housing" the last decades and many of the "welfare housing" projects exited the programmes only amplifies the need doesn't help much either. Oh, and if you got a family name that doesn't sound German... well, good luck. Many landlords and brokers won't even bother to return calls. Source: live in Munich, only got my apartment due to a friendly relationship with a broker.

As the diplomas in Germany count more or less as the same, you are free to choose a university at a place with lower renting costs like Leipzip, Koblenz or Greifswald. Your relatives may have to look on the map, but in everyday professional life (especially IT) it does not matter much. There are some preferred places for every field (KIT for IT in Karlsruhe, Business, Management in Mannheim, Engineering in Darmstadt...), but if you don't have or earn a lot of money, you have tons of good possibilities.

MarkMc 9y ago

A student visa allows the student to work 120 days per year. At minimum wage this is about EUR 720 per month. If the student allocates 40% to rent, that means 6 students could afford to pay EUR 1,228. Let's say 2 students per bedroom. Isn't it possible to rent a 3-bedroom home in Munich for EUR 1,228 per month?

mschuster91 9y ago
> Isn't it possible to rent a 3-bedroom home in Munich for EUR 1,228 per month? Good luck getting a flatshare these days. Landlords don't like it very much, because they associate flatshares ("Wohngemeinschaften"/"WGs") with noise complaints due to partying and trouble when one of the renters can't make rent. Also, 3-bedroom homes are already in scarce supply these days in Munich - any type of home is in scarce supply, and landlords will abuse this situation to pick only the most profitable (i.e. they pay their rent on time and don't generate complaints) kinds of renters: either DINKs (Double income, no kids - kids cause noise and thus complaints of neighors), or welfare clients where the Arbeitsamt pays the rent. Everyone else - low-income persons, families with kids, persons with their own company, persons on time-limited employment, persons with dogs (again, noise complaints), refugees, persons of non-German origin - is left to fight for the scraps. That there has been no build of "welfare housing" the last decades and many of the "welfare housing" projects exited the programmes only amplifies the need doesn't help much either. Oh, and if you got a family name that doesn't sound German... well, good luck. Many landlords and brokers won't even bother to return calls. Source: live in Munich, only got my apartment due to a friendly relationship with a broker.