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However, if you live with one other person who is working and would normally receive a 25% single person discount if they lived on their own, then if you move in as a student they are still entitled to the discount as you are not eligible to pay council tax. Therefore, it would be quite unfair for them to ask you to pay a share of it.
If you lived with 3 other people, all of whom are working, you could argue that they should split the cost between them.
Laney, I think Adem just meant that you shouldn't care what other people think. Sure... when you say you do a PhD some people look at you with a blank face. Often they're not being rude, it normally means they don't have a clue what a PhD is/what it involves, and so have no idea what to ask without feeling stupid.
I know I do the same when someone has a complicated job title - you simply move on to another topic if you can't relate to it!
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