Question?

[astoryandasong]

So say if you were living in Jersey, what would be the nearest college? Would it be a feasible commute to go to college in New York but live in Jersey?

I am at that stage when writing fic where you realise that you have plot holes sixteen yards wide, and nobody is going to psychically guess what you mean.

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[(Anonymous)]

My friend goes to Rutgers, and she had to prove that she paid taxes in NJ in the previous year in order to get in-state tuition. This is typical, and if you move away for a year, you typically lose your in-state residency unless you lived part-time in the state and paid taxes. However, this all varies from state to state, so you would have to check. Most people pay out-of-state for a year of school, gain residency, and then get in-state for the rest of their time at the school. You just have to stay in-state for the summer. Of course, none of this applies to smallish, private schools, which just charge the same fees no matter what (like the school Diana and I went to). And I'll echo the above-- lots of people from the Philly area and Delaware go to school in south Jersey (ala Rutgers), but you'd have to be from north Jersey to commute into NYC (NJ Transit runs trains into NYC) easily. Jersey is so strange-- South Jersey is half farms and half beach/gambling towns, and North Jersey is all Jersey Turnpike Asshole of the Universe ugliness.

I love how you have a problem thinking about the scale of the US-- I remember how much you and Jane complained about the 6 hour drive to the Lake District, but for me, that's just a drive home to my parent's house for a weekend from Chicago, no big deal.

-Emily