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as someone not hailing from the US the entire setup sounds bizarre to me and I wonder why students even still participate in this. Over here in Germany on-campu
by Barrin92 4y ago
as someone not hailing from the US the entire setup sounds bizarre to me and I wonder why students even still participate in this. Over here in Germany on-campus living is uncommon. People just rent flats in the city, go to uni and the limit to how much they can party is usually determined by how much they can piss off their landlord or neighbors, which is how it ought to be given that everyone's an adult.
Why are people over the age of 18 voluntarily putting themselves into an environment where they have to ask if they can have a party? Why is this nonsense not simply dying on its own? The real problem is that people don't simply leave. Easiest way to not be annoyed by some bureaucrat gone mad with power is to separate school life from private life.
- kpozin 4y agoMy understanding is that universities in the U.S. often own much of the real estate around their campuses. (This is particularly true at Stanford; even faculty members who want to live nearby end up renting from Stanford or "buying" land leases.)
- Spooky23 4y agoYup. University and hospital affiliates are often the biggest slumlords in their area. Having a buffer to make room for future expansion that produces income is a winning strategy.
- jdminhbg 4y ago> People just rent flats in the city, go to uni Stanford is an edge case because, as a sibling commenter says, it owns a lot of real estate, but also it's in an insanely high cost-of-living area, so students can't necessarily afford to live just anywhere. At most "normal" universities in the US, you can just live off-campus and do what you want (or at least, follow the city and landlord's rules, not the university's).