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[quote=Anonymous]I grew up in the suburbs of Chicago and went to college on the west coast.  I find it odd that people are so obsessed with having their kids stay near unless it is for financial reasons (in state tuition).  I think it was really great for me to develop a sense of independence and learn how to make friends and live in a new place in a controlled environment.  My parents were fine with it; my dad went to college far from home and my mother went to graduate school on an opposite coast from where she grew up.  Plus, my grandmother immigrated from Japan, so the notion that families can be spread far apart is just sort of taken as part of life in my family.  I have a lot of friends who went to Northwestern--and one of my good friends who went there didn't seem to have the experience of getting exposed to a new place and not hanging out with high school friends that people who went to school further away had.

I think the other thing that is missing from this discussion is the fact that whether you are a 5 hour plane ride away, or 2 hour plane ride away, it's unlikely that you are going to come home more frequently than Christmas and summer.  My husband was a 3 hour drive from home, and he rarely came back on weekends or even for summer break because he was working in a lab in undergrad, had homework, and had a on campus social life.  When you are busy with schoolwork, a flight or long drive is disruptive regardless.  When I was in graduate school, I was only an hour and a half long plane ride away from my parents and I came home even more infrequently than in college.[/quote]

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