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if you are rich enough to study abroad, you will absolutely be a gentrifier
the demographics of this website are mostly college kids from financially comfortable families
- most working class people in the UK can’t/don’t go to uni, literally the only people from my year that could were from middle class families
- the tweet says americans, it’s more expensive for them to do it
Honestly, we should probably shut down this whole US thing until we can figure out what’s going on with it.
I think it’s kinda wild to claim than international students drive more gentrification (or are somehow a major driver of it) than the overall effects of having a college/university in a given area.
In many places universities are straight in the cities and have dorms so I don’t know how much gentrification they can do.
Do most universities have dorms in other parts of Europe? Because in Denmark, the universities are in the biggest cities, and maybe have housing for 1.000 people between all of them, which is far too little for them to make a difference in the cities they are placed. Come to think of it, my former university had a specific housing foundation for international students, to help them find housing.
If you’re going to the Global South to study, sure. If you’re an American studying in like Germany or Denmark or wherever I assure you your precense isn’t making life more expensive for those living there.
