<p>Has anyone been sucessful in establishing california residency? S will move to Cali and stay in dorm during school year, and live with his uncle while working during the summer. He would leave Cal to visit a couple of weeks out of the year.</p>
<p>I heard this was nearly impossible for the UC’s but possible for the CSCs.</p>
<p>Has anyone been successful in doing this and if so - was it a UC or a CSC? What exactly did you do?</p>
<p>Thanks for your help.</p>
<p>My roommate did it. Basically, he had to do the following:</p>
<p>Break all legal ties with his family and become an independent.<br>
Show that he was financially self-sufficient by working a full-time job.
Live in California for 2 years.
Jump through hoops and loops and dips and swamps of paperwork.</p>
<p>was that for a UC or CSC?</p>
<p>For a UC. I don't think it's terribly different for a CSU, however.</p>
<p>California State University...grr pet peeves</p>
<p>In "Bring it on Again" the college was called California State College and it was filmed on the ucla campus. Probably the worst movie I've ever seen.</p>
<p>Move to California, pay your taxes here and then your child will become qualified to be considered a resident. Don't send your kid here to have me pay my taxes to put him through college....that wouldn't be very fair at all.</p>
<p>I will gladly pay my taxes in NY to support NY schools and allow out of staters to come here. I think all states should do the same. We are all one country.</p>
<p>states should form agreements... like CA and Oregon share public Us... ya know?</p>
<p>yes, but why even bother with agreements - just abolish it entirely. I paid my taxes in NY but my S is not attending school here. Why can't my taxes be used to subsidize an out of state student?</p>
<p>Some states have agreements like that but California doesn't because it knows that everyone would to come to California, not the other way around.</p>
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yes, but why even bother with agreements - just abolish it entirely. I paid my taxes in NY but my S is not attending school here. Why can't my taxes be used to subsidize an out of state student?
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<p>Federalism.</p>
<p>If New Yorkers would put enough money into their own system maybe people would want to go there. If New Yorkers want to come here they should send the subsidy for college here and we would call that full out of state tuition.</p>
<p>If you want a federal university system, that might be a good idea. Given the current administrations approach to things, they would tax the Democratic states to pay to put the universities in the Republican States. That in turn might educate the citizens of that state and they would then turn Democratic...</p>
<p>Seriously, each state's citizenry gets to elect people who will respect their wishes with regard to Public education including Universities. If you want your kid to benefit from a great public university the two most common choices are to live in the state where the good schools are or to push to increase tax support for the University (ies) in your own state. Sneaking into other peoples gardens to get food is not the same as working to get a garden of your own.</p>
<p>Yeah, the constitution says nothing about education therefore the good ol 10th amendment applys. If it's a big enough deal people will either pay the out-of-state or move. Sucks to be in a state with not as good public schools though...</p>
<p>You are not a true california resident until you're making payments on a 500,000 mortgage on a million dollar 1500 sq ft house and paying property taxes of 15,000 a year.</p>
<p>Hooray for Prop. 13!</p>
<p>I pay 12K taxes on a home valued at $500K on Long Island.</p>
<p>jomama, you leave a lot of people wondering without a state with that opinion. Prop 13 which was passed just in time to see the decline of California's education ranking drop from the top to near the bottom, is a disaster and needs a fix. For those outside the state, Homeowners pay taxes based upon the price they paid for their house not the current assessment and community need. This means people who have owned houses the longest, who could have the lowest mortgage payment (if they didn't refinance) put a good portion of their fair share of the cost of schools and local governments on the newest property owners. There are a lot of people in Ca with $500K homes and considerably less than $15K annual tax burdens.</p>
<p>twistedsis: how many sq.ft. and how big a lot do you get for 500K on Long Island?</p>
<p>25 year old house, 2400 sq ft and 1/2 acre.</p>