Why are Northern Kids Flocking to Southern Universities?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Smart kids are going to SEC schools in droves. lots of full pay kids realize they will receive strong education, nice weather, great sports and parents pay half the tuition.Once they graduate and get a job they most likely can buy a new house for a third of the price of old houses on tiny lots in blue states. And they won’t be paying 30-50 thousand bucks in property taxes to wear Canada Goose jackets for 5 months of the year.
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Long term your plan does not seem sound. Climate change is real and these southern states are pretty screwed even assuming that our autocratic experiment fizzles. Just look at the weather and storms last weekend, etc. It seems never ending and if we do go full autocrat it will just get worse. Why would anyone want to live and start a family in the south if they have other options? Crap like this is why New England is still one of the best places to actually have kids especially if your head works and can make money. Hopefully north east also starts building more housing at some point to drive down those costs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: Let’s see 4 years in Austin, Athens or Gainesville vs 4 years in Williamstown, Brunswick Maine or Amherst, Going to bowl games and March Madness vs 100 people protesting for climate change.

Love it how in America going to the sportsball bowl games is the pinnacle of the culture. We are so cooked. Students are going to these schools to be entertained Welcome to the golden age of China! How are we going to stay competitive with the rest of the world. Being good at sales will not be enough!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote: Let’s see 4 years in Austin, Athens or Gainesville vs 4 years in Williamstown, Brunswick Maine or Amherst, Going to bowl games and March Madness vs 100 people protesting for climate change.

Love it how in America going to the sportsball bowl games is the pinnacle of the culture. We are so cooked. Students are going to these schools to be entertained Welcome to the golden age of China! How are we going to stay competitive with the rest of the world. Being good at sales will not be enough!

Thanks for giving everyone an example of the type of person kids go south to avoid!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Smart kids are going to SEC schools in droves. lots of full pay kids realize they will receive strong education, nice weather, great sports and parents pay half the tuition.Once they graduate and get a job they most likely can buy a new house for a third of the price of old houses on tiny lots in blue states. And they won’t be paying 30-50 thousand bucks in property taxes to wear Canada Goose jackets for 5 months of the year.
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Long term your plan does not seem sound. Climate change is real and these southern states are pretty screwed even assuming that our autocratic experiment fizzles. Just look at the weather and storms last weekend, etc. It seems never ending and if we do go full autocrat it will just get worse. Why would anyone want to live and start a family in the south if they have other options? Crap like this is why New England is still one of the best places to actually have kids especially if your head works and can make money. Hopefully north east also starts building more housing at some point to drive down those costs.

Except the kids aren't staying down south after school. They come back north. That's why I don't get this southern school thing. If you want to relocate to another part of the country, okay, but a lot of these kids come back north when school is over. In part some of these kids are leaving school without having secured employment, can't find anything down south, and then come home to live with their parents.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Smart kids are going to SEC schools in droves. lots of full pay kids realize they will receive strong education, nice weather, great sports and parents pay half the tuition.Once they graduate and get a job they most likely can buy a new house for a third of the price of old houses on tiny lots in blue states. And they won’t be paying 30-50 thousand bucks in property taxes to wear Canada Goose jackets for 5 months of the year.
g

Long term your plan does not seem sound. Climate change is real and these southern states are pretty screwed even assuming that our autocratic experiment fizzles. Just look at the weather and storms last weekend, etc. It seems never ending and if we do go full autocrat it will just get worse. Why would anyone want to live and start a family in the south if they have other options? Crap like this is why New England is still one of the best places to actually have kids especially if your head works and can make money. Hopefully north east also starts building more housing at some point to drive down those costs.

Except the kids aren't staying down south after school. They come back north. That's why I don't get this southern school thing. If you want to relocate to another part of the country, okay, but a lot of these kids come back north when school is over. In part some of these kids are leaving school without having secured employment, can't find anything down south, and then come home to live with their parents.

Cite or are you just spewing anecdotes?

[Anonymous]

Data doesn’t back up your statement, PP. Top states for population growth are uniformly in the south - TX, FL, Carolinas, Ga.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Smart kids are going to SEC schools in droves. lots of full pay kids realize they will receive strong education, nice weather, great sports and parents pay half the tuition.Once they graduate and get a job they most likely can buy a new house for a third of the price of old houses on tiny lots in blue states. And they won’t be paying 30-50 thousand bucks in property taxes to wear Canada Goose jackets for 5 months of the year.
g

Long term your plan does not seem sound. Climate change is real and these southern states are pretty screwed even assuming that our autocratic experiment fizzles. Just look at the weather and storms last weekend, etc. It seems never ending and if we do go full autocrat it will just get worse. Why would anyone want to live and start a family in the south if they have other options? Crap like this is why New England is still one of the best places to actually have kids especially if your head works and can make money. Hopefully north east also starts building more housing at some point to drive down those costs.

Except the kids aren't staying down south after school. They come back north. That's why I don't get this southern school thing. If you want to relocate to another part of the country, okay, but a lot of these kids come back north when school is over. In part some of these kids are leaving school without having secured employment, can't find anything down south, and then come home to live with their parents.

I don't know your source, but my kid is 100% staying away from the DMV and wants to stay in the south.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Smart kids are going to SEC schools in droves. lots of full pay kids realize they will receive strong education, nice weather, great sports and parents pay half the tuition.Once they graduate and get a job they most likely can buy a new house for a third of the price of old houses on tiny lots in blue states. And they won’t be paying 30-50 thousand bucks in property taxes to wear Canada Goose jackets for 5 months of the year.
g

Long term your plan does not seem sound. Climate change is real and these southern states are pretty screwed even assuming that our autocratic experiment fizzles. Just look at the weather and storms last weekend, etc. It seems never ending and if we do go full autocrat it will just get worse. Why would anyone want to live and start a family in the south if they have other options? Crap like this is why New England is still one of the best places to actually have kids especially if your head works and can make money. Hopefully north east also starts building more housing at some point to drive down those costs.

Except the kids aren't staying down south after school. They come back north. That's why I don't get this southern school thing. If you want to relocate to another part of the country, okay, but a lot of these kids come back north when school is over. In part some of these kids are leaving school without having secured employment, can't find anything down south, and then come home to live with their parents.

Source? Everything I've read in the past few years is precisely the opposite - most of the highest growth states, young and old demographics alike, are in the South- GA, NC, TX, FL, SC. Or the West (UT, CO, AZ). It's the northern states that are disproportionately hemorrhaging their populations.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Smart kids are going to SEC schools in droves. lots of full pay kids realize they will receive strong education, nice weather, great sports and parents pay half the tuition.Once they graduate and get a job they most likely can buy a new house for a third of the price of old houses on tiny lots in blue states. And they won’t be paying 30-50 thousand bucks in property taxes to wear Canada Goose jackets for 5 months of the year.
g

Long term your plan does not seem sound. Climate change is real and these southern states are pretty screwed even assuming that our autocratic experiment fizzles. Just look at the weather and storms last weekend, etc. It seems never ending and if we do go full autocrat it will just get worse. Why would anyone want to live and start a family in the south if they have other options? Crap like this is why New England is still one of the best places to actually have kids especially if your head works and can make money. Hopefully north east also starts building more housing at some point to drive down those costs.

Except the kids aren't staying down south after school. They come back north. That's why I don't get this southern school thing. If you want to relocate to another part of the country, okay, but a lot of these kids come back north when school is over. In part some of these kids are leaving school without having secured employment, can't find anything down south, and then come home to live with their parents.

Cite or are you just spewing anecdotes?

I'm in NYC. I know of many kids who come back up after graduation. Also, many southern grads with no family connections here come up here to work.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Data doesn’t back up your statement, PP. Top states for population growth are uniformly in the south - TX, FL, Carolinas, Ga.

PP: We're talking about college graduates from southern schools, not retirees or older adults who are relocating.

[Anonymous]

Yes, why oh why? Maybe because it's sunny and the girls are pretty. Occam's razor.

People on here are posting as if the most recent information they have about the South is George Wallace's inauguration speech. Catch up. That was over 60 years ago.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes, why oh why? Maybe because it's sunny and the girls are pretty. Occam's razor.

People on here are posting as if the most recent information they have about the South is George Wallace's inauguration speech. Catch up. That was over 60 years ago.

But also lots of hype about southern schools based on what people "have read" and not actual experience.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Data doesn’t back up your statement, PP. Top states for population growth are uniformly in the south - TX, FL, Carolinas, Ga.

PP: We're talking about college graduates from southern schools, not retirees or older adults who are relocating.

Yes, and? TX, FL, GA, and the Carolinas are among the highest growth states for young people. N

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Data doesn’t back up your statement, PP. Top states for population growth are uniformly in the south - TX, FL, Carolinas, Ga.

PP: We're talking about college graduates from southern schools, not retirees or older adults who are relocating.

If you think the only people moving south are retirees you haven’t been to Charlotte, Nashville or Austin lately. Those cities are extremely popular with those in their 20’s and 30’s. And they’re filled with grads of southern flagships with a better quality of life than DC and NYC.

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Anonymous wrote:Smart kids are going to SEC schools in droves. lots of full pay kids realize they will receive strong education, nice weather, great sports and parents pay half the tuition.Once they graduate and get a job they most likely can buy a new house for a third of the price of old houses on tiny lots in blue states. And they won’t be paying 30-50 thousand bucks in property taxes to wear Canada Goose jackets for 5 months of the year.
g

Long term your plan does not seem sound. Climate change is real and these southern states are pretty screwed even assuming that our autocratic experiment fizzles. Just look at the weather and storms last weekend, etc. It seems never ending and if we do go full autocrat it will just get worse. Why would anyone want to live and start a family in the south if they have other options? Crap like this is why New England is still one of the best places to actually have kids especially if your head works and can make money. Hopefully north east also starts building more housing at some point to drive down those costs.

Except the kids aren't staying down south after school. They come back north. That's why I don't get this southern school thing. If you want to relocate to another part of the country, okay, but a lot of these kids come back north when school is over. In part some of these kids are leaving school without having secured employment, can't find anything down south, and then come home to live with their parents.

Cite or are you just spewing anecdotes?

I'm in NYC. I know of many kids who come back up after graduation. Also, many southern grads with no family connections here come up here to work.

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Ah, so it is just your anecdotes. No actual data, you just "know of many kids."

That is what I thought.

(Spoiler alert, the data says the opposite of the kids you "know of".)