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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I attended a LAC while the majority of my HS classmates (who enrolled in college; the majority did not) attended the two large unis in our state or one of the five regionals. Many returned to our hometown, landed jobs, married, had kids, were active in the local schools, took care of their parents as they aged, and are now grandparents themselves. While my life pretty much doesn't resemble theirs in many ways, I just don't get the vitriol here. It is certainly great for our hometown that folks return, pay taxes, and plow money back into the community. It's not necessarily what I sought in life, but I don't begrudge them for it. [/quote]

Ditto. [b]Why do people think it's so awful to be attached to your family, friends and community?[/b] I did move across the country in my 20s but regret that a bit now that I'm in my 50s and spend as much time as I can going back to my home state to see family and see how some old college friends have been able to have long, close relationships in the friend group I'm no longer a part of.[/quote]

They don't. Well, I certainly do not think this way. But the argument of public univ. vs. private is not about that, at all. It is wonderful to be connected to your community of origin. I know I am. But I also went away for college from said community where I was exposed to different types of people, backgrounds, regional cultures, traditions etc. etc. College should be about growth both inside the classroom but also inside the dorms and student centers and, well, you get the idea. It is wonderful to have a strong connection to one's family and hometown community but to have that in a vacumn without being also at one point exposed to different types of people, customs and places just does not seem ideal to me.[/quote]

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