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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Kids often go to school OOS when they can’t wait to get away from family. [/quote]
yea, I know of a few kids who are looking to go as far away as possible to get away from their parents.

The kids I know who are close to their family want to be at least within 3 hours.

Also, coming home for the holidays will be a major PITA for those kids who go really far away. Could be why they go that far, though, so they have an excuse to not come home for the holidays.[/quote]

My college roommate and I were very close with our families.

I wound up 8 hour drive from home and she was a 4 hour flight.

Granted, she was quite well off and I was more middle to upper middle class.

I just wound up there. My mom had wanted me to go away to college because she was not allowed to in the 60s.

I enjoyed being able to have a little freedom during those years. I grew as a person while remaining tight with my family.

And this was before cell phones and zoom and all that tech that connects us even more[/quote]
Why couldn't you have that freedom going to a college three hours away?   If your parents wanted you to have some freedom, you could have that living an hour away just as easily as 8 hours away.  It just depends on how much *you* were wiling to use how close your parents are as a crutch.

My kid is going to instate close by, but they are on their own.  We have zero expectations of them coming home on the weekends or us visiting them often.[/quote]

I of course could have gone to a school closer. It just happened that the best school for me was the one that was 8 hours away. I also had options 1, 2, 3 and 4 hours from home. The actual distance wasn’t the point of my post, anyway. Just that you can be close to your family and go farther than 3 hours away, which the poster above (could be you, don’t know) seemed to use as some yardstick of a kid’s love for their family.

The only school I didn’t have any intention of going to and my parents didn’t want me to go either was the state university 15 minutes from home. There was nothing wrong with the school - it just really wouldn’t have felt like “going away” to me or them. Many of my friends who went there lived at home. 1/3 of my high school class went there. Just too easy to NOT branch out.[/quote]

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