| Comment | Yeah, with the limited numbers of flats available, covid making coming here earlier to seek accommodation hard, landlords holding out for COP, and some changes to student letting rules, a lot of students were forced into these drastically overpriced specialty accommodations.
I saw a student advice website aimed at Indian students that was basically giving the advice that broadly speaking landlords and businesses that deal with students are crooks in the UK that will do anything they can to cheat you and you will have little recourse unless you know the system. My first instinct was to be offended but when I thought about I couldn't help but admit that from their perspective that is largely true and not horrible advice to give. Ripping off and exploiting students (especially international students) is the biggest open secret in the UK.
It actively hurts our reputation abroad and I wish more was done to curtail this kind of thing. I can totally see why some of these students may be coming here thinking we are a nation of crooks and it is so frustrating as we despise these scumbags as much as they do but seemingly nothing ever changes. |
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