[Denman]

Originally Posted by Stud Man Dan

Avoid credit cards like the plague, skimming over some statistics from some websites, the average credit card debt for a college student is somewhere around $2700, and 10% of college students debt exceeds $7000. I don't know about you but I sure as heck don't have $7000 dollars laying around and you'll pay for that debt later. I hear the having one for emergency use reasoning often, Its rare thats the case but maybe you can arrange something with your parents that if you are in an emergency you can use theres.

its about £6k AVERAGE here... and thats about $10k... hence why its hard to get anywhere , can't get property etc... if your coming to the uk at all, manage your money tightly and remember its value in dollars, stuff here is much more expensive