For luxury apartments, you'd think the gardens would be a little more colourful. I'd stick a couple of hydrangeas in there somewhere, or maybe a nice crop of daffodils. ^__^

Was thinking the same thing. Very uninspired landscaping

Indeed, which kinda eliminates the point of university accommodation. I feel students would benefit from having something to inspire and engage them; my old university had an area with a little pond on campus surrounded by flowers, trees, and bushes, with songbirds, guineafowl, and rabbits often visiting in the spring. It was a great place to go and unwind, and think about ideas for essays. :)

I've found that helps a lot with mental health. Having my garden with flowers and trees certainly has helped me

I went to a local community college

I went for architecture originally. Not like you can get a 2 year degree in that though

Thats great! I know people still paying off their student loans. One of them was $200k!

One of them was for law. And she was considering either law or veterinary science. In Delaware law is very hard to get into, because its so competitive and the law firms don't often hire outsiders. Took her several years to get even a basic job at a firm outside the county. So to her credit she stuck it out and eventually got a job in that field. But I don't think she likes it, and she'll be paying off those loans for years to come.

Yeah, medical, programming, or STEM are really the only practical things to go to college for. Otherwise I steer people toward trade school.

Almost all new builds are luxury units, because it offers better margins and therefore faster return on investment for developers. What irks me is that demand is low for luxury units, meaning either people overpay because they can't find reasonably priced units or they sit empty.

I think you're right. I don't know if its directly comparable, but NYC has had a lot of luxury apartments built recently. And despite having too many, and not nearly enough buyers, the companies that built them were unwilling to sell them for lower prices. Don't know if it was due to stubbornness, fear of devalueing their product, or just because they'd invested so much money in them. I know NYC has a critical housing shortage though, and construction of these luxury units hasn't helped

It's a problem nationwide. In just about any urban area there is a glut of top-dollar luxury apartments and a decent supply of cheap, run-down old apartments, and scarce little in between. If you don't want to live in squalor, you often have no choice but to overpay.

Sounds about right. I'm waiting to buy instead of rent, but who knows if that will ever happen.

Yea trying to pay for housing or apartments is rough exp now with all my dept. to (saw the comments below) I went to school 20 11 For Art and 3d design. After a year things fell apart and found out how 2d was dead and going into the industry was almost impossible. It just waset a good fit for me (more a comic guy). so i tried to switch to Electric and was doing great, then my funds dried keeping me looking for work and affording 900 month payments like thes .....also for the price you pay i dough you get insulation at all! theirs
all that brick on the out side but none on the inside! thats kills me! they try trick you that its soundproof lol