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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think there are ways to experience more than Maryland other than going to another college. In particular, I think paying tens of thousands extra to experience some other town in the US is extremely stupid, when that same money could be spent on exploring dozens of countries and learning a handful of other languages (like I did). But those are just my personal priorities..[/quote]

[b]If you have only ever lived in Maryland, you have not truly experienced life elsewhere, no matter how much you have traveled.
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Who cares?  What’s better than being able to live among your life long friends and family? [/quote]

[b]It causes you to be perceived as parochial.[/b] Because you are a parochial.

It is possible to experience life outside of the bubble you grew up in, and to stay close to friends and family. It is not an either/or dichotomy. [/quote]

NP...but PP--I hope you do realize that this statement is about how YOU (and others who happen not to have grown up and lived in only one place) view others who have only lived in one place as "parochial" right??? And it may be a shared prejudice you hold with others like you, but this doesn't mean that the OP *is* parochial.
You also need to allow for the reality that others have different values from yours. Not *inferior* to yours...just DIFFERENT from yours. One who is so "worldly" as you ought to recognize that.[/quote]

Anyone who is trying to “cultivate a lifelong interest” for their kid in the state university they attended, in the state they grew up in, is a person who is parochial [i]per se[/i].[/quote]

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