> 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 a

> 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).