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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I did this OP, it was great and fostered campus community.

If your dc doesn't want to do that, they can attend another university. [/quote]

No kidding, really?

You say foster community, I say perpetuates the nanny state and delays growth in life skills like paying utility bills, taking out the garbage on the right night, shoveling snow to be a good neighbor, grocery shopping, cooking, and I can go on like this all day[/quote]

They will get there.

Why does it have to be at 20 instead of 22?

[b]You sound pretty rigid[/b].[/quote]

And, many of the juniors and seniors opt to live in on-campus apartments where they shop, clean and cook (this is what I did ) or on-campus language houses where they speak their chosen language full-time (and shop, cook, clean take out trash etc).   And since bills are basically all on auto-pay their utility bill is not any different than their spotify, amazon prime, other bills etc.  They are still managing money and making sure they have enough if their account to pay for these.  And in what typical off-campus housing at other colleges are kids shoveling snow or taking out garbage on a given day?  Most places have a service to do that these days and apartments will have a dumpster that you put your trash in whenever (pretty much like a dorm).  Most college kids are not living off-campus in single family homes. And even most 20 something college grads aren't living in single family homes where you do those things--the typical person will live in an apartment building in a city where they take care of those services and you have your bills on auto pay just adding to the bills teens and college students wherever they live have on auto-pay.   It's almost as if you think that if college students aren't living your 'frozen in amber' version of what you think on-campus life and off-campus life are, they are not learning life skills.  So weird.

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Auto pay? You sound incredibly sheltered.[/quote]

You don't have your bills on auto-pay?  I'm a 40-something year old professional and I have my bills, retirement contributions, investments, on auto-pay.  It's the most seamless, smart way to do it if you know how to manage your money and technology well.  How is that sheltered? [/quote]

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