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Anonymous wrote:I can't help but wonder if those advocating distance are the same people we hear bitching on the Family Relationship threads about how shitty their parents are and how much they hate o be around them. Cause or effect of leaving at 18.

I posted that I went halfway across the country for college. I live literally a mile from my parents now. Going away to college does not mean living there permanently. I chose a top school for both college and grad school. They did not happen to be in the WDC area. I went to one of the "Big 3" schools here and probably 90% of my class went a good distance for college.

Not unusual - most "Big 3" alum return to the bubble - the rest of the country is too foreign.

A good number of my classmates stayed in Boston, the other bubble. I'm not ashamed, I like the bubble here.