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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I really have no dog in this fight, but it's hilarious that people can't see the difference in paying tens of thousands for tuition that can be funded by loans and needing to pay cash for plane tickets.[/quote]

You fly to school in August and fly home in Dec, back in Jan and home in May.  2 roundtrip tickets, maybe 3 if dorms close for spring break.  
Or you find friends to stay with over spring break.  
Purchase those tickets in advance to get discounts.  We are not talking $10K.  More likely only $2K max.   It's more about the parent wanting control---the need to "get to them" and to "visit".  [/quote]
So, not Thanksgiving together.

Also, Xmas and summer are high traveling times, so airfare can be very expensive, especially to popular destinations like LAX.

Then you have to pay to ship everything over ever year, then back because you cannot leave your stuff in the dorms.

So you are looking at more than $2K + the hassle, delays, etc.  Flying is much more cumbersome these days than driving.[/quote]
DP. Students living far away from college typically never, ever ship things home for summers - shipping indeed is too expensive. They store them in storage units ($60/mo or less if shared) or friends' basements.

Flying can be cumbersome sometimes. It just depends. (Currently have 3 kids in college who fly to/from. The farther one sometimes has stayed at school for Thanksgiving and was not alone.) Buy plane tickets carefully and keep baggage fees (or not, Southwest) in mind when pricing. It's not impossible.

Larger airports like LAX are typically less expensive to fly in/out of.

Again, any additional travel cost should be added to the cost of attendance to be compared to OP's budget. Cost in and of itself is not a reason to limit distance, as indeed a farther college could easily end up cheaper than a closer one, with so many other variables in computing college costs.[/quote]

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