u/master_pde_

Hello all!

I was recently accepted in a PhD position at ETH. The lab will be in Hönggeberg.

My first question is how does someone manage to find a flat/appartment? I am reading from other posts that it is better to find a shared flat, but given the location of the campus I dont know in what area I should start looking for houses (Hönggeberg or Zurich center?). I have to take some courses, so I would prefer to be able to reach the main campus in reasonable time.

Additionally, I heard the opinion to rent outside Zurich and buy a used car to travel to the campus, in order to find lower rents and have some flexibility, but from what I am reading the parking costs a lot. Is such a plan an overkill?

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Hey everyone, first time trying to buy DrMartens.

Basically my whole life I wearing chunky sneakers (adidas, nike) since I have a pretty narrow foot. For the past few months I really started liking DrMarten shoes, so I went to the site and found these. I measured my food distances as the guide measure feature suggests (unfortunately these is no way for me to physicaly try them in my area) and I was kinda shocked.

My foot length is ~27 cm and my width 11.7 cm. To meet the 27 cm length requirements I have to buy the 41 (I usually wear 43-44 in sneakers) which have a very narrow width for me.

I asked an LLM for how these shoes "react" on wearing them and how small is the 9.3 compared to 11.7 width and it told me that I have to find another leather since this is very hard to open.

Do you have any opinions in this? What leather/number should I buy? Thank you for time!!!

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Hello all!

I was recently accepted in a PhD position at ETH in Fluid Dynamics. The lab will be in Hoggenhof.

My first question is how did you manage to find a house? I am reading from other posts that it is better to find a sheared flat, but given the location of the campus I dont know in what area I should start looking for houses (Hoggenhof or Zurich center?). I would like to take some courses from the math department, so I would prefer to be able to reach the main campus in reasonable time.

Additionally, I heard the opinion to rent outside Zurich and buy a used car to travel to the campus, in order to find lower rents and have some flexibility, but from what I am reading the parking costs a lot. Is such a plan an overkill?

Note: I earned a Marie Curie Fellowship, so I will not be extremely tight on money. I dont want to spend a extremely much for a house though.