Thank you so so much to all of you guys - everybody had something extraordinarily helpful to say and now I have a lot to take into consideration/to have my parents take into consideration.
@nextstep1 I think being musical and loving to think outside the box would fit into the Wes environment but, from what I know, Wes is really liberal. However, since Wes is an accepting place I feel that lots of different people from lots of different backgrounds manage to fit in.