<p>Post #97, I don’t think it’s “true” that Miami hasn’t recovered. It’s one of the wealthiest cities in the country, by far.</p>
<p>the only financial hardship to hit florida lately was the real estate bubble collapse, which was certainly not fueled by immigrants.</p>
<p>I personally think these kids are in a tough spot. Being raised in the US, by undocumented parents, is not the same kind of thing as being moved around by wealthy ex-pat parents. But, I don’t think we are going to resolve that on this thread, anyway. haha.</p>
<p>AuntJulia, I suspect she decided to leave before she was officially kicked out. According to the UGA residency paperwork that I completed, if you provide false information about residency you will be expelled and billed retroactively for OOS tuition.</p>
<p>@poetgrl
I’m not exactly sure what you’re asking, but if the student does not live in the U.S., he will be considered OOS for all states regardless of citizenship. It happens every now and then at my school.</p>
<p>sevmom - The affidavit that I filled out a few years ago said nothing about criminal charges, just the expulsion and the payment of OOS tuition. </p>
<p>Here is a quote from the UGA police chief about how they discovered the deception. "We found he had another child who was eligible for in-state tuition in Virginia so our question was, how could they be eligible for Georgia and Virginia,” Williamson told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution on Monday.</p>
<p>I highly doubt this case had anything to do with her sorority.</p>
<p>All of the articles state they initially acted on an anonymous tip. The bored hillbillies then simply scoured public records and likely social media to find out more about the family. To be honest, this residency fraud happens all over; from using vacation homes, to business apartments to grandma and grandpa’s condo in Naples. Four felonies seems like gross over reach by the hillbillies at the UGa PD. The guy paid $37000, he and his daughter have been publicly humiliated and she left school. What more do you want?</p>
<p>How many crimes commited by football players has the UGa PD swept under the rug? How many sexual assault victims do they persuade to not file a complaint? I’m glad they found the time away from writing parking tickets and busting teens for drinking a beer to charge a dad (who promptly paid back what he owed) in Virginia with four felonies. This is a bunch of hillbillies targeting an out of stater with a foreign name. Period.</p>
<p>Beckstiles - I see you are going to U of M. I am assuming you are from Michigan. I grew up and went to college in Michigan and still have family there. However there are not a lot of good paying professional jobs in Michigan. So we currently live in Georgia. The people at UGA are no more hillbillies than you are.</p>
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Rules are rules, but I have always disliked rules that get enforced infrequently and selectively without any effort to make it difficult to scam the system. "</p>
@beckstiles is so superior because he is up North. Yep, those people in Michigan really could teach the hillbillies in the rest of the country a thing or two about how to run things well, like the way they run Detroit.</p>
I had once read Danielle Steel’s “Southern Lights” where a Yankee character asked her southern friend the significance of the phrase “bless her heart” for which she was told it meant the speaker had strong feelings against the person or against the opinions of that person. She said that stating it directly to a person, “bless your heart”, is even stronger. I really hadn’t ever given any thought to that phrase till then. Can someone from the South enlighten me on the usage of this phrase - was Danielle Steel’s character’s assessment accurate?</p>
<p>Yup. Basically, it’s politely dismissive. It means, “Wow! Clueless,” or something similar. And, it’s secretly amusing because often the person it’s being said about or to has no idea. “Poor thing” is another one. The character was correct. </p>
<p>I didn’t claim everyone in the South, or even everyone in Georgia is a hillbilly. I was using the term to address anyone at UGa or the bitter DA stuck in Athens, vengeful enough to pursue (four) felony charges against this father. They are in fact hillbillies who are absolutely sticking it to this man because he has a foreign surname and he’s an outsider, or as they probably say it, “ain’t from 'round here.” He paid his debt and his daughter went home. Let it go.</p>
<p>Four felonies after paying back tuition, how many felonies for the average sexual assault perp at UGa?</p>
<p>Look, we should all be grateful state authorities are charging a man with four felonies for the crime of trying to game the system. Imagine if this dangerous criminal had gotten away with getting his daughter a quality educatin? The entire educational system could have collapsed and all of these overpaid administrators and bloated bureaucrats would be living on the street.</p>
<p>Here, I am reminded of the lede Spencer Hall of the inimitable EveryDayShouldBeSaturday penned for his obituary for one of Georgia’s mascots: “UGA VI died as most Georgians will: pantsless, lacking a high school degree, and suffering from a heart attack.”</p>
<p>(In case you couldn’t tell, Hall is a Florida grad.)</p>