Well done @katliamom, I took advantage of the sedan situation too, but I fear a future where sedans have gone the way of the station wagon.
I look at my emaciated copy of the SJ Mercury News, once an award winning paper, each morning and I can’t feel good about the state of the industry. Now everyone has to subscribe to the New York Times to get meatier journalism, but in my humble opinion it loses the local perspective way out here in California.
Generally the few times I’ve been able to have deep conversations with youth nowadays is when we’re outside phone coverage like backpacking or we expicitly ban the use of phones during the event.
But prof2dad’s point that I was resonating with is that choices made at the individual and village level percolate up and the market responds. And when our purchases reflect wants vs needs, of course the price rises. If our desire for colleges is educational and societal nirvana, then overhead is needed to assure that, again with a pricetag.
Anyway I fully admit I was crotchety last night. I just feel that the consumer needs to scale back some of our expectations on colleges and then demand that the colleges cut the fat in return.