You'll be tight on budget in California with only $1,000 per month. If you rent a room rather than trying to find a place to yourself that'll ease it up; I've paid between $310 and $400 for a room with some friends, but we did our rent calculations a little differently. On the other side of that, I have other friends paying upwards of $500 for the room alone. Throw in utilities and food (depending on how much you eat) and you'll go through that $1,000 in no time at all. If you can budget a bit more then you'll be fine, if not then maybe look at Kansas.Well because it would be in my 3rd year I wouldnt need to pay any university fees apparently, so ill just need to pay my own way for accommodation and food etc so I guess about $1k a month? Hard to say at the moment how much ill be spending but I guess around that figure or slightly more is my ideal.budget.