@hisotalus should be seriously chuffed to save anything during your PhD anywhere in the UK. That's a hell of an effort!
To be honest, if I'd known all this... I'd never have emigrated to the UK.
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This is entirely, 100% dependent on where you live. There are very few places where you can be comfortable on a PhD stipend. Those are places where houses cost about the same as a Mercedes.
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They were in Vermont IIRC.
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Yeah, I don't know much about prices there. But most doctoral researchers I know are struggling.
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Also it's not like I know. Probably their parents gave them money too.
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I'm guessing yeah. In most cities here, like in Europe, buying a home even on professional salary is really hard.
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