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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]“You're looking for ways to justify your own insecurities.“

No, you’re looking for ways to justify a lack a lack of curiosity and a fear of adventure.

The vanity of people here who assume you have to be crazy or stupid to want to experience a public university that isn’t in College Park or Charlottesville reminds me of those New Yorkers who think everybody in the world spends all day trying to figure out how they might possibly be lucky enough to someday live in NYC. Get over yourselves. College isn’t one size fits all. [/quote]

Lol.  I’m the poster who had two UVA grads, one who joined the Peace Corp for three years and other who lived abroad for 7 years after college and got a masters in a European university.  Both also studied abroad in college. Does that sound like a “lack of curiosity and fear of adventure” to you?  Get back to me after your spawn do that after going to Ohio State. [/quote]

That’s a cute anecdote.

But most UVA grads end up in VA. Rinse, repeat. 
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Yes, both of mine eventually returned home. As have my other kids. But if you all have this weird notion that your family is better off with your kids scattered all over the world then have at it.  I’ll never understand that way of thinking. There’s lots of opportunity in the DMV. Are all of your kids going to these out-of-state schools never coming back? And if they aren’t coming back, I’d be real interested in hearing why that makes you happy. [/quote]

I’d be happy if they end up somewhere more interesting in a place they enjoy. We are planning to relocate ourselves at some point in the future. Could be near the kids.

They may choose to live in VA, which is fine. Just not very interesting IMO. 
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So you’re one of these transplants who thinks you’re above the DMV and that it’s “not interesting.”   You do realize that it’s drones like you who come here only for your soulless job and make no effort to actually integrate and that you find it “not interesting.”  Right?  And if it’s so uninteresting and so terrible, why are you inflicting such misery on your kids?  Why do you have to wait for them to grow up?
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We are “integrated” in our community and the kids are happy. It’s an ok place to grow up. Doesn’t mean we want to be here any longer than needed.

I guess if you’ve only ever lived in VA and then attended school in VA then it might seem like a great option. YMMV. 
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We haven’t “only ever lived in VA.”  We moved to VA in our late 20s after grad school and moved to downtown DC early retired empty nesters.  We also have a second home a couple hours away - a real one where we stay frequently, not some bogus Arbnb rental that we rent out to help cover the mortgage.  And we’ve been all over the world, as have our kids, and are back on the extensive international travel saddle now that the pandemic is (largely) behind us.

We’re a pretty tight family and we have a lot going on right here.  We help each other out quite a bit.  None of our grandkids has ever had paid childcare in their live - and yes, their mothers work, both having landed excellent job after graduating UVA.

It’s super odd to suggest that a family in the top one percent and living in the national capital is parochial simply because their kids wisely chose to attend what is generally regarded as one of the finest universities in the country at half the price of most of its peers without being concerned that it was only a couple hours away and without a burning desire to leave their family behind.  Every good school is located close to somebody.  We’re extremely lucky that one as good as UVA is this close to us.

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