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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Of course it's reasonable.

My oldest kid started college across the country and I didn't have enough money for me and siblings to fly out. (I'm a single mom.) I wasn't worried because kiddo was always very self-sufficient and independent. Plus, we had a relative who said they could help. Well something came up Spring semester, that relative was too busy with work and I could not afford to go out. Kiddo finished that year but ended up deciding not to go back. I should have insisted they choose a closer college. [b]The entire year was very stressful because finances were too stretched [/b]and kiddo was so far and couldn't even come home much. [/quote]

It sounds like the real problem was that you couldn't afford school, not that you couldn't afford the specific location.[/quote]

No, it wasn't about not being able to afford the school; we couldn't afford the travel to the specific location. Had kiddo been within a day's drive, they could have come home more often which would have been better for them.

By the way, I grew up in NYC and it was very, very common for parents not to allow their kids to leave the city or require kids to be driving distance. This is not an unusual restriction.

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