How kids truly want to leave their comfort zone and attend college more than 500 miles away from home/
Better yet how many parents allow it to happen?
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quote:Originally posted by fenwaysouth:
He is 462 miles away.
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Does it really matter once he get's over 300-400 miles? Once you have to go to the airport then an extra hour or two is really not that big of a deal.
quote:Originally posted by deldad:
I guess I ask this question. How far from parents or hometown do the posters live?
Over 700 miles from both.
Could care less how far Jr. goes as long as he is happy.
quote:Originally posted by cheapseats:
200 miles from home to the field - Most of the other schools he seriously considered were much further away but in the end being in the south was important for him, not to be close to home but to be in warmer weather.
Although he is only 200 miles away, he only came home 2 times his freshman year (Thanksgiving and Christmas). We visited him once last fall (none so far this fall) but we did take advantage of the short commute last spring by attending all home games and a few away series that were within 5 hours. We have given him a ton of "parent free" time in the fall but we made up for it in the spring by being there for home games, even when we knew there was no way he would be in the line-up and I actually think he enjoyed having us there.
I ended up traveling approx. 4,500 miles by car during the spring season even though he was only 200 miles away and I would do it again in a heartbeat!