places to live off campus?

gthopeful
Fri, 03 Jul 2009 15:59:31 +0000

You can really find some bargains if you look at where is easily accessible to Tech but outside of campus a ways. For example, I live in Buckhead a 5 minute walk from the MARTA station and my apartment rent (split between me and my roommate) is 990 a month (1100 sq ft). With utilities/internet/MARTA pass, it comes to about 550-600 a month for each of us. My commute to class is about 20-30 minutes, which isn’t bad at all, and it costs me over $200 less per month than living on campus.

As it turns out, they’re jacking up the housing rates again and so all the more reason to not live in campus. Tech continues to be the only school I know of where you actually pay a premium to live on campus.