honeyloco

Hi, I'm here in tallahassee for a year. I arrived 2 weeks ago and live at alumni village. To start with, its not so bad at all. It's way better than Rogers Hall which isn't even liveable and that's on campus. The accomodation is huge and its cheap(ish). It sucks without internet and the average utilities (apparently) is $120 and there's no air con; you have to buy that yourself; I'm still looking for one. Note there is a deposit for utilities + phone line. For my one-bedroom, it's 395, plus 120 bills, probably $60 for internet, $25 for my mobile; it comes to $600 essential...pretty standard for this area. The most annoying thing is this damn train tallahassee blows its horn whenever it feels like so when you're half awake and can't sleep it's really annoying, but when you're asleep you don't even notice it. I have no car and I would really like a scooter but I think I'll have to borrow money off my parents to do that straight away. Therefore I take buses and they are actually okay. You have to accept that they maybe early and then turn up late but I come from a small town in England where trains come once every hour anyway so it doesn't really bother me. They drop you off in campus and practically outside your door step. Then hop onto another bus 10 minutes later, I think its the 16, to Hermite Grove (i think) from campus and you're at publix within 5/10 minutes. This weekend I explored out and found the way to Governers Square Mall and Target by bus. It was actually incredibly simple and easy. I don't actually need a bike at all, I'm just so used to driving that it feels weird not too; plus eventually I would like to do some exploring to the beach and such, so I probably will but it'll have nothing to do with the fact that buses are bad. I do agree that maybe you shouldn't underestimate the area alumni village is in but if push really came to shove I would walk back; just maybe not with my laptop in tow... there is this taxi service FSU does for free 668-SAFE (i think) that takes you from campus to alumni which really helped out when I missed my bus (up to 2 in the morning I believe). Anyway, I'm here so ask away. I'm annoyingly honest lh00015@gmail.com

Actually ditto to the question above! I'm doing a one year research thing and accommodation is my biggest worry; at the moment I'm in ragan or roger, I think its roger. Is there a supermarket near campus?