Spectator sports are an ever-popular pastime. Area restaurants provide a diverse fare featuring a variety of ethnic cuisines including southern, soul, Cajun, middle eastern, Thai, Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Indian, Greek, Italian, Puerto-Rican, Mexican and French. The cost of living is moderately low. Most students live in either University or private housing complexes. Inexpensive campus housing is available for married students.
Spectator sports are an ever-popular pastime.
Area restaurants provide a diverse fare featuring a variety of ethnic cuisines including southern, soul, Cajun, middle eastern, Thai, Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Indian, Greek, Italian, Puerto-Rican, Mexican and French. Created as a showcase for the fine arts in Alachua County, the Florida Arts Celebration devotes six weeks each spring to a kaleidoscope of performances. From jazz to ballet, opera to theater, this tribute to cultural expression features many leading artist from Gainesville and around the nation. The Center for the Performing Arts at the University of Florida which, with its partner Florida Arts Celebration, offers world-class performing arts events. The University Gallery, on the University of Florida campus, the Santa Fe Gallery and the Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art , one of Florida's three largest museums, offer a variety of changing exhibitions and programs year-round.