Universiteit Utrecht

Because in here they seem to eat less than we do in Mexico. I had to buy things in small amounts and that is more expensive. Telephone, here is way more expensive for local calls. Accomodation, I live with my parents, so I don't have to pay anything. Nightlife, here it is much cheaper; drinks are not expensive at all. Travel, it cost a lot to travel. Plus I don't on my own back home. Overall, here are lots of things like the bycicle, books are really expensive also.

The main factors, which were responsible for the unusual higher costs i had to take in account were the very high housing expenses, the traveling and the nightlife. I usually don't go out so often in my home town as I did in Utrecht. This is partly because of the many partys, which were arranged for the international students und in part because of the all new people I got to know in Utrecht. We also did some traveling - for instance we went once to Paris and so on. Of course all these activities were linked with spending more money than I usually do when I am in my hometown.

In my own country I usually spend a lot of days in my parents house so I don't have to spend any money buying food. About nightlife and travel, during my Erasmus I had much more spare time than I used to have at home when I was studing.

food is less expensive in Holland than in France. However, mostly all the other fields are more expensive, namely , accomodation. travelling is more expensive in Holland. apart from that, I had expenses I do not usually have in France where my parents live. being completely independent is the main factor of these new expenses.

I spent so much more on accommodation in Utrecht than I do in the US. I traveled quite a bit, and of course that adds up to a lot of money. Food is about the same, at markets they are usually less.

Food is free at my university. Accomodation as I said before is very expensive. It is double what I would have paid in Greece. Traveling costs are also about double in comparison to Greece.