I wanna go to a community college in San Diego and later transfer to ucsd or ucla but I live in the Bay Area. Is it stupid for me to move down there?
Can you afford the rent? That would be the question. My best friend was from northern CA and attended CC in Southern CA. If cost is an issue, better to stay where you are and save rent $
If you would otherwise continue living with your parents, it would be less expensive to do that than to live on your own, unless there were some special situation (e.g. you could get a job in San Diego that pays significantly better than one you could get in the bay area, or you could live with other relatives in San Diego at comparable cost to the cost of your parents letting you continue to live with them).
@Emsmom1 did your friend work while going to school? I’m nervous about the cost of rent but I do know I would need to work for it.
Her parents supported her when she went to CC in SoCal; she did not work. If you have to pay your own rent, it would be better to stay home and go to a CC nearby and save your money for when you transfer. Unless there is a reason you feel you can’t stay home…
I feel as if I’m babied by my parents and want a more freedom for me to become an adult. Thats mainly why I wanna leave home. Do you believe I should take the risk and move to SoCal?
I think you should stick it out at home for two more years. Your plan to move immediately is highly risky. It fails if you can’t find a job to pay the rent. It fails if you work so many hours to pay the rent that you can’t get good grades. If it fails you will have to move back home and will find yourself even more stuck under your parents, only this time with the specter of ‘we told you so’ hanging over your head. You want to get out in a way that supports your independence in the long run. Staying home for 2 years to go to CC and transferring to a UC is the way to do that.
So while you’re at your local CC, plan to spend as much time as you can on campus: doing homework in the library, participating in extracurriculars, volunteering, maybe even take a part time job if you can do that and keep your grades up. Focus on building the academic capital you will need to successfully transfer to the sunny UC of your dreams.
I agree with @otterma - it’s too risky to move to SoCal and have to support yourself. You’ll be moving on soon enough
OP do you have to pay your own rent if you move for CC? Is there a certain budget that perhaps your parents will provide you with for school? Some of my friends had specific budgets like : $1,000 a month for food, rent, utilities, etc so that way they had to find cheap housing and live with roommates. The parents agreed to pay for tuition, books, etc as long as certain conditions were met.