> While New York can be a very expensive city, it can also be reasonable if you plan correctly. You can certainly find a room for under $1,000/month. I wonder how hard is to find such a room for someone who's not an US citizen and doesn't live there. Anyone who's been in that situation care to provide more info? Do you just go to craigslist/AirBnB and try to book a room for 3 months? I'd love to apply to Hacker Schoo…
I roomed with 3 other hacker schoolers in a 4 bedroom apartment about 20 minutes away from hacker school (by train), and rent was $600 a month. I found the place through craigslist. Once you get accepted you can coordinate with other hacker schoolers and people from previous batches to help you find affordable places to live. Also, there were people from India, South Africa, Netherlands, Sweden and France during my batch. Most of them found housing in a similar way (through craigslist/airbnb or previous hacker school alumni)