A southerner studying in a northern climate

Parents Forum
81

<p>Not sure this was legal, but when I was a resident OOS my mom, whose name was also on my car, kept up the insurance payments and I don’t think she changed where the car was kept. Check on things with your insurance agent. Who knows, the rates could be cheaper in his college town.</p>

<p>I think this is typical when a child is in school. I don’t think insurance companies consider students to be residents of the state of their school. I think they consider the student to be residents of where their parents live if the parents own the car and the child is still considered to be a member of the household.</p>

82

<p>Montegut: My son is applying to law schools. All but two are in the north. He asked me if we still had his boots in the closet (we do). If he chooses to go to school up north, he wanted to know if we could go shopping for a warmer coat that offers a water-repellent shell (we will). Oh, and he likes chicken noodle soup, so he asked me to save the coupons for that. Must watch too many TV commercials.</p>

83

<p>Tips to avoid a winter pileup from a pro trucker:
[url=&lt;a href=“http://autos.yahoo.com/news/11-tips-to-avoid-a-winter-pileup-from-a-pro-trucker-195116395.html]Yahoo![/url”&gt;http://autos.yahoo.com/news/11-tips-to-avoid-a-winter-pileup-from-a-pro-trucker-195116395.html]Yahoo![/url</a>]</p>

84

<p>Insurance - the insurance company wants to know the “principal place of garaging” (as will the state for the purposes of registering the car) and will base their rates on that. If you tell them the car is at home with you and the college gets into an accident in their college town, then they “can” refuse to cover the accident. Please read the fine print on your insurance policy or call and ask rather than make any assumptions. I know that lots of people take the cheapest road but I have heard of cases where it backfired. Just sayin…</p>

85

<p>

</p>

<p>Good point. There’s actually very little correlation between latitude and flight delays. </p>

<p>Here are the top major U.S. airports for on-time flight arrivals in 2012:

  1. Salt Lake City
  2. Minneapolis/Saint Paul
  3. Phoenix
  4. Charlotte
  5. Seattle/Tacoma
  6. Detroit
  7. Atlanta
  8. Portland
  9. Chicago Midway
  10. Las Vegas</p>

<p>Here are the 10 worst airports for on-time flight arrivals in 2012:

  1. Newark
  2. San Francisco
  3. NY LaGuardia
  4. Washington Dulles
  5. Chicago O’Hare
  6. Houston
  7. Washington National
  8. NY JFK
  9. Miami
  10. Fort Lauderdale</p>

<p>On-time departure performance is similar. These ranking change a bit from year to year, but the 2012 results are fairly typical. Notice that Chicago O’Hare ranks among the worst in on-time performance, while 350 miles to the northwest, Minneapolis/Saint Paul ranks among the best. And notice that 4 of the 10 major U.S. airports with the worst on-time performance were in mild-to-warm climates (San Francisco, Houston, Miami, and Fort Lauderdale).</p>

<p>Weather can cause flight delays, but often those weather-relayed delays reach far beyond the locality with the bad weather because the aircraft can’t get to the places they’re supposed to be. And it’s not just snow that causes flight delays; worst I ever experienced was a 3 day delay due to a tropical storm. Apart from weather-related flight delays, some airports suffer a high rate of delayed flights because they’re simply congested facilities operating at or over capacity, and/or because they’re served by particular carriers with a poor on-time performance record. Notice that in 2012, for example, Chicago O’Hare was one of the worst for on-time performance while across town in the same market with the same geography, Chicago Midway had one of the best on-time records. Climate didn’t have much to do with either of those rankings.</p>

86

<p>^Good observations.</p>

<p>My worst-ever delay was from Salt Lake City to Chicago. It took 30 hours to get home. In June. No weather at either end.</p>

87

<p>Airline choices matter also. It was frustrating when other airlines had no trouble going from southern CA to Minneapolis and Minneapolis flights outbound were fine one winter day before bad weather hit while ours was cancelled. At least that time we were spending time at a relative’s house instead of a hotel.</p>

<p>That Yahoo article is excellent. If you had to remember one word it would be SLOW.</p>

88

<p>My advice: Don’t do it! Winter sucks.</p>

89

<p>I am late to the party. </p>

<p>I am a southerner who has by choice lived in the north a couple of times, for school and for work. It can be done. I bought lots of new clothes each time. I am a pretty hard core southerner, the kind who wants to stay home until the snow melts and to go buy milk and bread when she hears the word “snow,” but each time I lived in the north I enjoyed it. I treated it like an adventure: learned how to ski, bought a snow shovel. Op, your child is young and likely to embrace the challenge of living in a different climate.</p>

<p>But I must confess I live in the South now!</p>