Posted on 06/10/2022 7:55:03 AM PDT by KingofZion
When Sally Ireri moved to California from Nairobi, Kenya, five years ago, she didn’t expect life to be this difficult. Studying for a doctoral degree in mosquito genetics at UC Riverside, Ireri has had to borrow money and car rides from friends because she makes less than $30,000 a year from teaching.
*** “I don’t know if I can afford to stay here,” said Ireri, 28. “I’ve made a community in the past five years and if I have to leave it’ll be sad.”
The plight of Ireri and other foreign graduate students adds another layer of woes to California’s housing affordability crisis, which has led to the nation’s highest homeless population and burdened millions of tenants with high rents. Foreign students’ difficulties in living in California has broad implications, not only for those who may be hoping to remain here after their degree but the nation’s economic competitiveness as well.
*** Mukesh Kulriya first arrived as a PhD student at UCLA in 2018 from a small town in Western India. To support his studies in Indian folk music, he took a teaching job at the school. He earned $2,100 a month, but the apartment the university offered him cost $1,400.
***Unable to afford student housing, Kulriya proceeded through a series of unstable living situations. He left one house he shared with two others after police had to break up a brawl between the landlord and one of his roommates. He then secretly bunked in two different university apartments, paying $800 a month for a room. He didn’t have a key to either one had to ask his friends on the lease to let him in at night. When the COVID-19 pandemic first hit, Kulriya flew back to India but still paid $3,000 in future rent.
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Darn!
Leaves rural India, travels 5000 miles to Los Angeles - to study folk music of rural India. WTF???
That’s because there’s no real journalism. Only agenda driven propaganda.
Yeah. That’s really going to enrich America. NOT!
What about American grad students?
They should get some pointers from American homeless folks.
Thats like me going to Ghana to study Bluegrass Music.
Still overpopulated.
Cali should have 5-7 million people, max.
Most of California is empty.
The desert could bloom if California had allowed desalination as a major infrastructure strategy.
People are not the problem, brain dead leadership is the problem.
FOREIGN kids can’t afford to live there? If you want to be near the coast, you have to make a minimum of $200k to live there somewhat comfortably. Hardly anybody can afford to live there.
This is another LA Times whiny story to make us feel blue about foreigners.
The simple solution is to MOVE OUT of California. Problem solved. Sure you won’t have sunshine and beaches and redwood trees, but you can put a roof over your head, food on the table, and gas in the car. Whoa...scratch that. No roof, food or gas in BidenWorld.
Wait, Sally is studying for a doctorate in “mosquito genetics”?!
I guess that’s better than underwater basket weaving, but not by much.
The world has truly gone insane.
Newsom will just give them some free housing, no problemo
Yeah, it’s SO hard to find good Indian folk music teachers in India. Lord knows, I’ve tried.
You can’t have large-scale, useful desalination without large-scale nuclear power. And that won’t happen in our lifetimes.
California governance is the worst in the nation by a country mile.
I’m a nearly retired software engineer and I can’t afford to live in California. LOL
These are FOREIGN grad students. Most of those are too smart to get degrees in boneheaded majors like blame-the-whitey or cascading-social-grief.
“she makes less than $30,000 a year”
My son was offered multiple PHD programs. He actually accepted a program in Bioengineering at GA Tech. However, after rethinking it he declined and got a job as an Associate Scientist.
One of the main reasons was he would have been paid a stipend of $31K/year for 5 years while he worked on his PHD.
He would have had to live in the Buckhead area of Atlanta on $31K/year.
The PHD programs at these universities is basically slave labor. The positions at all the Ivy leagues are taken by Chinese students(spies) and most of the rest come from India. The Indians use it as a way to eventually get a Green Card and US citizenship.
When my son accepted his position at a pharma company his boss was an Indian young man here on a work visa. He was a terrible boss/manager. My son said he was like an indentured servant for the company. He was overworked and underpaid. He had to stay in that position or get sent back to India.
My son now works at another major Pharma company. Got a 30% pay increase and is making more than he would have even if he got a graduate degree. His old boss is still at the old place. My son already paid off his student loans.
Plus there’s a lot of elevation here. Pumps take a lot of power.
Such as shame. Now go back to Africa and stay there.
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