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by joewferrara 979 days ago
Best advice for quality of life for a PhD student living off the PhD stipend - live in a low cost of living area. In math (what I got a PhD in), you get paid the same amount (about $20,000 a year when I started in 2013) if you live the SF Bay Area (sat going to UC Berkeley) as you do if you live in Tucson, Arizona (say going to University of Arizona). There are good universities in low cost of living areas that prospective PhD students should heavily consider - at least I wish I did.