Two suitcases. One visa. Four walls that don’t know you yet. That’s the welcome package nobody hands you at the airport. Your family is lighting diyas an ocean away. Halloween pumps through campus while you’re hunched over a lecture slide. And your room? A beige box with a mattress and an echo: a space that […]

Standing on Oxford Road at nine in the morning, you have Manchester all around you. To the south, buses take students into the green suburbs; to the north, the shops of the Northern Quarter open their shutters; and to the west, the glistening canals of Castlefield lie. Consider yourself to be standing at the middle […]

So, you are planning to move to Madison, Wisconsin. You may know about University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW), the picturesque lakes, the famous farmers’ market, and the constant ranking among the best college towns in America. However, prior to packing your bags, you would want to know the answer to this inevitable question: How much does […]

6:30 Market Street. Delivery vans are parked at loading bays, while the first trams take early shift workers across St Peter’s Square. This is how a working day in Manchester begins, and it will not end until the last bus departs. We trace this day in our guide, the Manchester Shift Clock. Each chapter begins […]

Are you thinking about relocating to Columbia, Missouri? Well, you may have heard that there is the famous University of Missouri (Mizzou), a buzzing downtown area, and a city that regularly ranks among the most picturesque and affordable smaller cities in the country. However, before you go ahead and buy your plane ticket to Columbia, […]

So, you’ve managed to survive the first year in Madrid. You successfully coped with bureaucracy, learned how to travel around the city by metro and ate your weight in tapas. Now it’s time for a new challenge of adulthood, renting in Madrid as a student in the second year. Leaving the dorms and moving into […]