Cost of living in Munich as a Student

I would like to know how much we have to pay for high speed internet (i.e. DSL), phone, TV, electricity, water,food and bus.

What is the average cost?

thanks

ayhz2002

Water: Will usually be included in your rent as part of your Nebenkosten.

Electricity: Depends on the flat. For a small flat plan on EURO 40 a month, but you'll probably get some back at the end of the year. You generally pay a guesstimated amount calculated by the Stadtwerke every quarter and then either get a bill or get some money back at the end of the year when they read the meter.

TV and Radio fees: No discount for students, EURO 16.15 a month.

Public transport: You will need to prove you are a student: for the inner ring it'll cost EURO 30 a month. If you live further out of town it'll cost more.

Phone will cost something like EURO 15 a month fee plus calls... plus the initial connection charge which I believe is something like EURO 60 at the moment. As for DSL: as a student you have access to the Uni failities - do you need desperately need DSL at home? I think it is something like an initial connection charge of EURO 100 plus EURO 10 a month: but knowing Telekom it might take the little darlings three or four months to connect it. Depending how long you are staying, it might not be worth the effort.
Again all this depends on your flat: if you're in a Wohngemeinsshaft you may already have a DSL/phone connection anyway.

Food: you can live repectably on EURO 50 a week. This will obviously depend on your eating/drinking habits.. eat out two times and it can easily go up to EURO 100.

Ask Aquatic what he pays for going out every night!!! :shock:

Although its probably not that much more expensive than throwing half the contents of the fridge out every 2 weeks cos you didn't eat it, mouldy bread, shrivelled fruit, out of date tins etc.

Does german bread ever go mouldy? I think it just turns to stone ...

DSL: The price will vary depending on which provider and which tarif you use. I pay between 60 and 65 euros per month for the phone rental, DSL rental, DSL flat-rate tarif, and a few phone calls. The actual price depends on how many phone calls I make. As Koala said though, you can probably use the University's connections, so I'd check that out before paying for DSL at home.

TV: You'll have to pay the license fee that Koala mentioned, and there may be some fees for cable included in your rent. If you want english language movies you'll have to pay extra to get "Premiere".

Transport: The monthly tickets are worth the price. You can use all trains, busses and trams, including night bus and tram services which usually run through the night on fridays and saturdays.

But if me Uncle Jamal can put up wif just da occasional English programme, Ali G is on on Sunday nights. me assume da Germans read da subtitles innit.

Not every night - usually just 4-5 nights a week.


Go mouldy? Half the time it starts out that way!

I don't know where Aquatic gets her bread from, but if she gets it from Penny Markt then it's true. More often than not the bread does indeed come pre-fungified. But only if it's brown bread. If it's white bread then, as NoGo indicated, it comes pre-petrifactioned. Especially those 12 bun value packs. They'd crack your kitchen floor tiles if you dropped one.

The cost public transport? Koala's right. A month's ticket for Toytown central zone will cost about 30 of your hardly earned grant money. But by loitering listlessly on the U-Bahn platforms you can soon learn to avoid the plain-clothes ticket inspectors thus travelling for free.

(look Daddy, no use of the quote feature, but everyone still know's what I'm on about! Don't they?)

I picked up some bread in the PEP one time and just after I paid for it I realised that it had bit blue patches on it. I showed it to the cashier, and she let me replace it with a new one.

P.S: What's all this "she" business, anyway? When was the last time you met a girl called "AquaticMeringue"?

Hi Koala i read your thread about using the uni facilities but i am an english student which is going to be studying at TU Munich. I have been told there are only 20 internet pcs in the main library so i think ayhz2002 will need to look into what is provided at uni first. Which uni are you going to ayhz2002?

If you get university accommodation (like in StudentenStadt) then you can get everything for as little as 150 Euros a month (water, electricty, heating, fast internet...)
But there is a shortage of rooms, so you have to apply way in advance, or know someone who knows someone!

try this:

Information about student accommodation in Munich