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Where did you go to school that you were able to pay a mortgage and have a family while doing your phd? I'm paying a wee bit more than half my monthly salary on

Where did you go to school that you were able to pay a mortgage and have a family while doing your phd? I'm paying a wee bit more than half my monthly salary on rent alone. Am in Bay Area though.

thebooktocome 8y ago
> Am in Bay Area though. That's the problem. The housing market isn't literally insane in the whole country.
- Fomite 8y ago
  This. One of my graduate students just bought a house here, because the housing market isn't utterly disconnected from reality. Could they afford to live in the Bay Area? No. Can I afford to live in the Bay Area? Also no.
chrisseaton 8y ago
The UK, but our base stipend is similar to the US. Internships and part-time research contracts can make up your income to a workable level, and that applies in the US as well. I didn't earn a lot, but it was enough to get on with life like a normal person. I didn't eat dried ramen like the stereotype.
- ntsplnkv2 8y ago
  Ahh the UK where health insurance coverage is much easier to attain... Where in the UK? What field? There are several important details you are leaving out.
  - chrisseaton 8y ago
    Manchester, programming languages. Not superstar machine learning or anything like that.
    - xtracto 8y ago
      Hey, I did a PhD in the University of Liverpool some 12 years ago. I had a scolarship from my home country, but had a blast in my 3.6 years in the UK. I remember seeing colleagues from the UK who got a good stipend. I think in general in the UK doing a PHD was good at that time, specially because it usually lasts only 3 years. Nevertheless, after spending other 4 years in academia, I turned to Industry and would never go back. Academia is broken at this point in time.
jccalhoun 8y ago
I did my phd in Indiana and had $90k in student loans by the time I was finished (of course that includes my undergrad and masters degree). I was in the humanities though.

Where did you go to school that you were able to pay a mortgage and have a family while doing your phd? I'm paying a wee bit more than half my monthly salary on rent alone. Am in Bay Area though.

thebooktocome 8y ago

> Am in Bay Area though. That's the problem. The housing market isn't literally insane in the whole country.

Fomite 8y ago
This. One of my graduate students just bought a house here, because the housing market isn't utterly disconnected from reality. Could they afford to live in the Bay Area? No. Can I afford to live in the Bay Area? Also no.

chrisseaton 8y ago

The UK, but our base stipend is similar to the US. Internships and part-time research contracts can make up your income to a workable level, and that applies in the US as well. I didn't earn a lot, but it was enough to get on with life like a normal person. I didn't eat dried ramen like the stereotype.

ntsplnkv2 8y ago
Ahh the UK where health insurance coverage is much easier to attain... Where in the UK? What field? There are several important details you are leaving out.
- chrisseaton 8y ago
  Manchester, programming languages. Not superstar machine learning or anything like that.
  - xtracto 8y ago
    Hey, I did a PhD in the University of Liverpool some 12 years ago. I had a scolarship from my home country, but had a blast in my 3.6 years in the UK. I remember seeing colleagues from the UK who got a good stipend. I think in general in the UK doing a PHD was good at that time, specially because it usually lasts only 3 years. Nevertheless, after spending other 4 years in academia, I turned to Industry and would never go back. Academia is broken at this point in time.

jccalhoun 8y ago

I did my phd in Indiana and had $90k in student loans by the time I was finished (of course that includes my undergrad and masters degree). I was in the humanities though.