<p>I'll try not to make this too long, but bear with me.
I have completed my first year undergrad in a Canadian University - I'm doing a variation of International Relations.</p>
<p>The problem? I have never really felt this good in where I live as I was in Southeastern Europe when I was little a come during the holidays. I find that everytime I go there I don't want to leave. The people are nice, climate..ect.</p>
<p>I though I would feel different in university, but I don't. I was advised to go into residence "because that's how you meet new people "(my friend's advice) but I lived so close to the university it seemed a waste to pay thousands of $ a year and, not to offend anyone but I found the people to be susprisingly anti-social - and I grew up there.</p>
<p>I have a couple of options one of which is to transfer to U of Toronto which would be costly (I'd have to pay room and board)and I may have to take a moderate loan from the gov't which isn't TOO bad. </p>
<p>Then, there are some American universities I have been looking into, mainly AUBG (American University in Bulgaria) where I will be close to my family and will enjoy a more intimate setting in a region of the world I feel comfortable in. </p>
<p>Neither are bad.
But one of them is world renowed and the other is, at the risk of sounding disrespectful, the school people go to when they can't afford a school in the USA or Canada. </p>
<p>Many people would give an arm and a leg to have a diploma from the USA or Canada and it seems almost bratty for me to give that up and go back to eastern europe because I feel 'at home'.</p>
<p>I want to back and eventually work in the region, but if even so it seems a diploma from abroad would be regarded with more respect - and I think US/Canada diplomas even more highly regarded than English or French or German ones.
At times I think this is fussing too much over a BA degree.<br>
Any advice would be appreciated.
Sasha</p>