Universiteit Maastricht (UM)

Well, that depends where the people are. In my semester the places were to go out the Highlander (the most, only for drinking), Shamrock (drink and play pool or table football), Meta (disco), The Ala (disco, go only on Fridays) and Backstage (reggae, rock, heavy, etc. look the program)!! Well, the atmosphere in Mastricht is very good, but the place to go are very few. Normally except Meta and Ala (about 05:30-06:30 am) the places close at 3 am in the weekends. Well, in the coffee-shop Heaven you can eat very good. As well there is a Chinese restuarant in the market square whit direction to the bridge, which only cost 6 euros during the working days until 5 pm, and it's a free buffet where you can eat a lot. The Turkish restuarant in front of the town hall in the market, it's also cheap. The rest you will find out it. Enjoy lovely Maastricht!!!

There is a possibility of getting snow in December/January; the location is very central, on what accounts to Europe, and so it is very easy to get anywhere (Belgium, Germany, Holland are very near), so you should take advantage of your free time, and travel a lot.

Buy a bike, is the best investment, is only 50 euros, and then you can forget about transportation costs. Buy a discount card at the trains station if you wanna travel a lot. The cheapest market is ALDI.

Dutch are serious and reliable. Everything has a cost, so if you decide to live there alone, becauseyou need your space or simply because you don't want to share your privacy with someone else, then it becomes expensive.