I am living in Roland, and my room is not like this at all !!! This one has new painted walls and new floor, my bathroom is almost falling in pieces.....
You can put a microwave on the small fridge and make a home from such Bachelor-apartment, including a Murphy-bed and IKEA type living... (The cost, should be lower, but this may be, when the building will be old...)
Γεια σου φίλε. Προσπαθώ να ανέβω για την επόμενη σεζόν για Bachelor σε Computer Science & Engineering. Και έχω χαθεί λίγο με τα σπίτια η αλήθεια (όχι ότι θα κλείσω από τώρα προφανώς απλά να έχω μια ιδέα). Έχεις καμιά συμβουλή;
It's not quite expensive....it is very expensive...but I liked it cos of the privacy. I lived here for one year and didnt know ANY of my neighbours...Lol
Strange video. For most Dutch students getting a roof above your head in the first place is an almost unfulfillable challenge and a lot of them have to stay with their parents. This lady apparently does not comprehend the luxury position she is in. In my days this block was called 'Staalbouw I' and you could only get a room there having a Bachelor degree, not as a starter. In that time the adjacent block 'Staalbouw 2' was infested with cockroaches but alas, we were happy to have a roof above our head. Ppl, don't be spoiled!!
Jee, you live in a palace girl and sound a bit spoiled in my opinion. The kitchen is a closet? That's what I call 'a normal kitchen size'. The average kitchen in a Dutch house has this size... maybe one meter longer, but that's it. But for sure it doesn't have the size that you expect a kitchen to have. The average student lives in a room of 6-12m2 (12m2 is a luxury!) with shared kitchen, bathroom and toilet facilities and definitely not in such a well-maintained apartment with well maintained facilities like you live in (clean, nice painted, no broken tiles etc, private facilities). And if you expect a student room to have a microwave... uuhm excuse me!?.. no idea what standards you grew up with, but you can buy a new one for $55-110 in a shop and put it on top of your fridge. If you're looking for a freezer (your table model refridgerator doesn't have a small freezing compartment in it?) then simply visit a second-hand store and buy one for $50-100. Oh, and if you're there anyway, they might have a 40 dollar combi-microwave (microwave incl. oven!) for you as well. Ready :-)
Not spoiled in my opinion. I lived in student accommodations both in the UK and the Netherlands and the UK was definitely much better: properly sized kitchen, microwave, oven, freezer, newer equipment, and cleaner and well-maintained rooms. Then I lived in a Poptahof studio in Delft and the finitions of the house didn't change from the 60's, no freezer, no microwave and also no oven, the gas hob was on top of the fridge, crumbling paint etc. and I wasn't paying little money for it. In fact, my accommodation in the UK was even cheaper. I saw other DUWO houses as well and they were the same. DUWO definitely needs to boost its standards for the money they take, and there's little question about it. Also, no way that is a normal sized kitchen. Maybe for Dutch cooking, but definitely not for proper cooking.
Jay - self-appointed promotor of the Netherlands Dutch standards of living are just very low compared to Canadian and American and it sucks tbh. I wish this would change and I see it slowly does. More and more studio appartments for students are popping up, but they're still quite small, 28m2 average. The price you pay without utility costs is prety high for what you get though, around 390 euro's. On the other hand some student rooms with shared facilities are the same price, considering the fact that rent allowance is not possible for these rooms. Student housing is a money making machine over here!
You have a house for yourselfs. Most of our kids who have been born here, and are now in there 30ties have to live with there parents because they can't get a house. Everething here is packet with students, and I'm sick and tired of that! :-( Everithing for the students and the locals can stuff it argggggg!
