I live near a pretty big city. My town is 15 minutes from the downtown area. Downtown has a good number of colleges; all places people can get a good education. When looking at different colleges my senior year, I knew I wanted the full college experience but wanted to still be close to home.
I hear all the time from people, “Why didn’t you want to go somewhere new for school?” I knew I still wasn’t independent enough to be far from my family. I grew up with a close family and I knew being away from them would be too hard for me. I also had a hard time meeting new people if I went to a new place, so I thought having my family close would help me feel not so alone.
Though some people might not see it, going to school close to home can be nice. You can go home every weekend if you wanted to visit your family and pets. If you go home, you can just take your laundry there to do for free. You can also have home cooked meals whenever you want. You can also have somewhere to go for some quiet if you really need to get away from the school setting.
If you are living at home for college can also have some its drawbacks. You’re still an adult but you might not have as much of the freedom you might have if you moved out. You might still have to live under your parent’s rules. You might still have to be home at a certain time or not able to go out whenever you want. All the drawbacks you might have would depend on the
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Living close to home can help make the transition from high school to college a lot easier. I know if I went away for school, I would have had a lot harder time than I had when first starting college. For my personal situation, it made college a lot easier to handle.
