UCLLondonDecision-help
Bloomsbury vs King's Cross: which one wins for UCL students who hate commuting
Both are walking distance to UCL, but the rent gap is bigger than students expect — and so are the lifestyle trade-offs.
Apr 22, 20266 min read
Long-form pieces for international students choosing where to live.
We don’t publish listicles. Each piece below exists to help one specific kind of student decide one specific thing — where in Hyde Park to lease, whether Bloomsbury is worth the premium, what the actual stipend math looks like in Cambridge, MA. Updated as the source numbers change.
Edited by the MyHomeversity team. Our editorial framework.
Cambridge MAMITHarvardCost
The honest cost of living in Cambridge (MA) as an international Harvard or MIT PhD
Departmental stipends are generous on paper. Then rent and health insurance arrive. Here's what the actual monthly leftover looks like.
Apr 15, 20267 min read
USPracticalLeasing
What US landlords actually want from international students with no credit history
The five-document bundle that gets approved most of the time, the three workarounds for when it doesn't, and the one thing not to do.
Apr 8, 20265 min read
USPracticalLeasing
Reading a US apartment lease: 8 lines that will trip up an international student
Sub-letting bans, joint-and-several liability, automatic renewal — the clauses that look standard and then cost you a deposit.
Mar 28, 20266 min read
UChicagoChicagoPractical
Your first 30 days in Chicago as an international UChicago grad student
What to do in week one, week two, weeks three and four — to avoid the three things almost every late-summer arrival forgets.
Mar 15, 20265 min read