Tee who has had experience in studying Law at Boston University gave an advice about how to find housing at Boston and in the vicinity of Boston. However, please read it carefully and make your own decision upon doing a research about how to find housing. We hope this information will be useful for all of you who want to go to Boston. (date 05-23-2010)
Many Thai students come to Boston nowadays. Some of them have strong intention of further education at renown-institutions as BU, BC, MIT, Harvard, NU, Berkeley, U Mass; while some of them come for ESL study and plan to work at Thai restaurant along with. As of now ASC, Approach, and GEOS are at risk because many Thai students who study at these school work at Thai restaurants, and have very low attendance.
Housing lease in Boston is pretty higher than the other cities in the US; however, due to economic crisis, the rent is slightly lower than it was during 2007-2009. I talked to many rental agents when I first came to Boston last year (Sep 2009), they said the market was down, thus, the rent generally had not been increased since Sep 2008. Many apartments I shopped last September offered me some discounts or a free month. However, this year, starts Sep 2010, we expects slightly increased in rental cost krub. My 1BR-apartment unit was increased from $1150 (discounted cost) to $1200, the actual cost as it was in the past.
Boston area consists of many residential area such as: