<p>Anyone doing this? I'm from south Florida and am considering a lac in California. What are your thoughts on it? (pros and) Cons?</p>
<p>cons include storage, travel, difficulty going home on breaks, etc.</p>
<p>i'm going to be moving from california to new york in the fall. And yes, the main cons will be travel inconvenience and travel cost. Plane tickets are expensive, and it'll be annoying to keep going back and forth. Also, if you get homesick by any chance, you'll pretty much have to live through it. </p>
<p>This won't be so much a problem for you, but in my case, i'll have to adjust to far different kinds of weather. Personally, I think the living standards in california are extremely high and the weather is always great, so your transition won't be too difficult in that department. </p>
<p>There are pros to getting far away from where you've been all your life though... you'll become more independent, and in most cases more open-minded, mature, and cultured.</p>
<p>You should definitely visit the school before you apply or decide to attend. Try to picture yourself there, and make sure it "feels right".</p>
<p>I currently live in Houston, TX and will be going to school in Pittsburgh in the fall. Still trying to figure out how I'm going to get things there, but I'm flying there with my parents, so we'll pack as many bags as possible with my stuff, buy things when we get there, and ship whatever else (my computer, at least). </p>
<p>I'm glad to get out of Texas because I don't particularly like it, and I think being somewhere else is a good change. So many of my friends are going to the same universities, for some of them it will be almost like high school all over again. I think it will help me get away from reminders of bad things from middle school and meet more people. It always bothers me when I'm have a friend who doesn't understand there are other people too, so not having estabilshed friends may be helpful to me in that sense.</p>
<p>I won't be able to go home at Thanksgiving because I only have 3 days off, but I'm sure that I'll either have a friend who lives close that I can go home with, my grandma from Ohio will come get me, or I will visit some distant relatives that live about 30 min. from campus. I like that I have someone in the area, but no one who will be smothering.</p>
<p>I miss seasons, as in Houston there is that-spring-fall-thing that's about 70 degrees out, and summer where it's 90 almost every day. Hopefully snow won't drive me too insane in Pittsburgh.</p>
<p>Make sure you visit first, though, because you don't want to go across the country to find out that you hate where you're going.</p>
<p>*My only in-state college choices I really didn't like (UT is too huge, Rice is too small and close, and I dislike A&M for numerous reasons), so I didn't have much of a choice about going out of state. I ended up applying to schools in LA, Chicago, Pittsburgh, and Boston. I was going away no matter what.</p>
<p>im moving from los angeles to philadelphia and am pretty nervous. the weather and the east coast culture will definitely be a shock but i really wanted to go far from home because i was afraid that if i was close, i'd always rely on going home and maybe wouldn't push myself to be totally indepenedent. hopefully i made the right choice!</p>
<p>im going from new york to stanford. i really wanted to be far from home and experience a new culture on the opposite coast. though i am little nervous about being so independent from my family, i still am very excited about leaving and having this amazing experience. I think the best college experiences are the ones where you are completely changing your settings and leaving the norm behind</p>
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<p>This can also be a pro, becasue you cannot just run home. By sticking through it, you can become a better person, rathr than just quitting and avoiding adversity. (On the other side of the coin, one can probably go off the deep end, but I'm sure a lot of people just make due with what they have instead of running home).</p>
<p>I'm going from the West Coast to the East (Philly) this fall, so I've thought about this.</p>
<p>lots of people coming east...</p>
<p>i'm going to san diego this coming fall from maryland [washington dc suburbs]:)</p>
<p>ah, san diego's awesome :) </p>
<p>i'm going to NY from socal...dearie me, what an experience for all of us. </p>
<p>you'll all love california.</p>
<p>I'm going from NJ to Stanford... really looking forward to it!</p>
<p>I'll add my voice to everyone talking about independence.</p>
<p>I'm from Ohio, attending school in Boston, and I have become far more responsible and independent during my college years than I think I would have if I had gone to school closer to home. When you're at school far away from your parents, you obviously have to learn to do things for yourself.</p>
<p>My boyfriend is from about 30 minutes away from our school, and he's always calling his parents and asking them to bring up clothes, buy him things, etc. It's convenient, but I appreciate my ability to take care of myself financially (except for that, um, tuition thing ;)) and otherwise rather than having to call Mommy and Daddy all the time to bring me stuff.</p>
<p>All you people heading to Philly, yay! You're going to <3 it.</p>
<p>Yeah mollie thats what im totally hoping for. I am such a momma's girl. Im flying from tx to wisconsin in hope of growing up.</p>
<p>Yeah, that was me. </p>
<p>Before I went to college, I had never been away from home for more than a week -- and would get ridiculously homesick during that week (pathetic, yes?). Somehow, when I got to college, I wasn't homesick at all, which I think was a combination of being at the right school, making great friends, and realizing that since I couldn't go home on a whim, homesickness was pointless.</p>
<p>Hawaii to Philadelphia.</p>
<p>So many people heading to Philadelphia! Be sure to PM me if you have any questions. </p>
<p>If my college visits go well next week I'll be attending school in the Pacific Northwest, so I'm going from Philly to Portland, Seattle or Vancouver. Very exciting!</p>