<p>But StickerShock - college kids generally stay in the same community for four years! Sometimes five or six years. These days that is not very transient.</p>
<p>My daughter attends school in another state. She is a senior and is home less than one month per year. She even pays income tax to the state she lives and works. Whether or not she lives in a dormitory, rents an apartment from the school or rents an apartment on the local ecomony is immaterial.</p>