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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I went to BU and Boston was no picnic in the winter and spring, either. My sister went to Colby in Maine and she froze there for sure. Brother went to U Vermont and trust me, he didn’t have a balmy winter either.

It’s not all about the Midwest! But when you are young you don’t feel the cold in the same way, and you don’t care about the weather unless you are diagnosed with SAD or some other issue related to depressing and the weather. [/quote]

Boston is on the Acela, with access to a global airport. Very different from being isolated on a frigid island in Chicago or even worse, one of the podunk Big Ten college towns in the middle west.[/quote]
At academically challenging schools, whether in Boston or Ann Arbor, students, even the rich ones, aren't jetting away on the weekends to the Caribbean or Europe. They're doing schoolwork and socializing with their friends.[/quote]

Our daughter went to college in Boston they would all regularly take the train to visit friends at other colleges. That's not an option in the middle on nowhere midwest. You're on an island in flyover country.[/quote]
I went to school in Ann Arbor and would drive to visit friends at other colleges such as Michigan State, Notre Dame, and Purdue, among others.

I guess you weren't rich enough to buy a car for your daughter, so she had to take the train. [/quote]

There's also a train between Chicago and Ann Arbor.  I used to take it all the time to visit my friend at Michigan.  There are buses and trains all over the Midwest.[/quote]

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