Agreed. Why take on the expense and hassle of a plane ride away? Especially when you don’t qualify for FA but can barely afford BS. Those extras are a lot of money. Why disrupt club sports if they are important to a kid? When you live in an area with a huge diversity of private day and boarding schools there’s little reason to go out of NE.
As I said, the kids I know who went out of NE did so because they weren’t able to get into the schools they applied to in NE. (I also maintain that their parents targeted schools incorrectly and did not actually look at their kid as an individual. There are certainly schools they could have gotten into in NE.)