A Tilburg Professor on Twitter..
Any veracity to these claims?
"PhD students in Netherlands can afford to buy houses.."
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Yes. Because houses there are cheap. Except Amsterdam. Others like Den Haag Utretch Rotterdam Groningen are cheap.
Housing crisis is in the whole Netherlands. Rents in Amsterdam, Utrecht, Rotterdam... are on par with rents in London. And actually it’s not easy to find a place even if you are willing to pay a lot of money, which is not the case in London.
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No, houses in the Netherlands are generally small (but I thought of reasonable quality).
As for OPs question, rural backwaters like Tilburg or Groningen I imagine are very affordable. Though house prices in general have increased sharply in the Netherlands in recent years (so be careful about claims based on experiences from some years ago).
Houses are the size of cardboard boxes and made from similar materials.
Is it the USA?
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I had a buddy who was a PhD student in the Netherlands whose husband had a tech job and they had an ok house. It was small but cute because it faced a canal so you could see families of ducks floating buy from the kitchen very so often. Maybe there total salary was like 50+80 or something like that.
So, it pays ok but not great. The European system is a b1tch to go through because the jobs you get on graduation don’t pay a ton, and in my opinion it doesn’t seem like you learn that much. And you’re sort of an RA for much of your time as a PhD.
But if you “that life” then it can make a lot of sense and they put is enough that you don’t need savings or loans to do it and have an ok life like she did.
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But if you “that life” then it can make a lot of sense and they put is enough that you don’t need savings or loans to do it and have an ok life like she did.
Would you please repeat this in English?
Not the OP but my interpretation:
But if you _want_ “that life” then it can make a lot of sense and _what_ they (_the school_) _provide_ is enough _so_ that you don’t need savings or loans to do it (_i.e. obtain a PhD while living in acceptable accommodation_) and have an ok life like she did.