No crime San Francisco trip!

[ThatOwlWoman]

Not sure why anyone would turn down a free and full ride to a great school a few hours from home...to go thousands of miles away to an iffy place where you don't know anyone...especially at 18.... Or why their parents would let them... Especially these days...

Not everyone is afraid to leave their house, you know.

 

[TOP]

The ambulance chaser has probably never been to S.F. in his life.

The truth is not in him.

He did send his wife to experience the city...

 

[Earl]

Minorities in ghetto communities in Democratic controlled large cities are afraid to leave their homes.

But defunding the police and decriminalizing crime is a higher priority with the far left loons.

 

[Earl]

He did send his wife to experience the city...

The ambulance chaser has a propensity to lie…often.

He probably has a “husband.”

 

[Cypress]

Not everyone is afraid to leave their house, you know.

My father at 17 years old and on his own traveled 6,000 miles to continue his violin studies in New York City, and he only knew a few words of English. Some teenagers have confidence in what they want to accomplish.

 

[ThatOwlWoman]

My father at 17 years old and on his own traveled 6,000 miles to continue his violin studies in New York City, and he only knew a few words of English. Some teenagers have confidence in what they want to accomplish.

They don't always need to be coddled and protected. In addition, depending on what the student's major is, some universities have better reputations for education in their chosen field. Definitely what law school you choose makes a difference in your future employment. Ditto for engineering, medicine, many of the sciences.

 

[Mason Michaels]

They don't always need to be coddled and protected. In addition, depending on what the student's major is, some universities have better reputations for education in their chosen field. Definitely what law school you choose makes a difference in your future employment. Ditto for engineering, medicine, many of the sciences.

Why would anyone leave your hovel,when you could hide at home posting on an obscure message forum at the butt crack of dawn,while jacking off the flea bitten dogs!

 

[Lionfish]

My wife and son are on a College visit to San Francisco, he’s considering colleges for the fall.

On their fourth day, haven’t witnessed a single crime yet!

Does that blow you Trumppers minds?

I get you are an attention seeker but thanks for leaving yourself wide open.

Don't look now but San Francisco’s poop problem seems to be getting better

 

[Cypress]

They don't always need to be coddled and protected. In addition, depending on what the student's major is, some universities have better reputations for education in their chosen field. Definitely what law school you choose makes a difference in your future employment. Ditto for engineering, medicine, many of the sciences.

Good point.

I also thought it was also important to go to a university in or near a major metropolitan area, so you could apply for a lot of jobs and go on a lot of interviews when one approached graduation.

I really don't see how many interviews one can line up attending the University of Wyoming in Laramie.

 

[Cypress]

I suppose that if you don't place a serious premium on your convenience, they can be tolerable.
I'm accustomed to having everything I need just a few minutes away.

I was able to walk to Red Sox games as a middle schooler, and the bleacher tickets were 75 cents (still one dollar when I was in college) so I could do it whenever I wanted.
I wouldn't trade the experience of growing up in Boston for all the world.
You couldn't drag me to Fenway Park now,
but even being a couple of blocks from a donut shop is essential, not merely convenient, for me.
It's how I grew up, and I loved how I grew up.
Too bad that it's so much more expensive now.

And I require the constant stimulation of the city. I prefer the sound of traffic over the sound of crickets.
If you're not the type to be energized by the ambiance of the wilderness, the boredom is almost excruciating.

None of this is to cast negativity on those who thrive in different environs, but we do have to be ourselves.

I prefer the sound of foghorns and the bark of sea lions to the sound of heavy traffic. But I wouldn't want to live isolated way out in the boondocks either

 

[ThatOwlWoman]

No, it is in Berkeley. Just outside of San Francisco.

Has he chosen a major yet?

 

[TOP]

Who who would turn down a free full ride at a great University just a couple hours from home? Especially these days? And your dad would really like it if you picked that school...

 

[Yakuda]

My wife and son are on a College visit to San Francisco, he’s considering colleges for the fall.

On their fourth day, haven’t witnessed a single crime yet!

Does that blow you Trumppers minds?

It's so safe is San Franshithole

https://sfstandard.com/business/downtown-san-francisco-whole-foods-market-closing/

How screwed up are you exactly?

 

[ThatOwlWoman]

Good point.

I also thought it was also important to go to a university in or near a major metropolitan area, so you could apply for a lot of jobs and go on a lot of interviews when one approached graduation.

I really don't see how many interviews one can line up attending the University of Wyoming in Laramie.

It also depends on your major and what job opportunities there might be for you where you live/go to school. That's one reason my g-son chose a school close to home; he knew he could get an engineering job at Entergy or in the petroleum industry as soon as he graduated with his BS in mechanical engineering.

 

[cawacko]

I have a Central Market (Much better than a Whole Foods) just a mile from me a Shopping center the same distance. There is a Whole Foods about 5 miles from me. There is a krogers an Tom Thumbs about 3/4 mile from me a Home Depot and Lowes less than 1/2 mile away. We don't have to worry about stepping in poop. We have no violent crime and we don't have to put up with Nancy Pelosi. or homeless people. An urban lifestyle is how life was meant to be lived.

Urban living definitely comes with both benefits and challenges. Speaking to San Francisco at least violent crime isn't much of an issue. Crime is but not so much violent crime. It's just a lifestyle choice. I live in a high rise condo building. As much as I love it I think about my young kid and would it be better to have a front (or back) yard where she can play and run out in the street and play with kids on the block. I don't have that now.

But there's a certain excitement to urban living and its a very diverse environment. A lot of pluses to that.

 

[cawacko]

It also depends on your major and what job opportunities there might be for you where you live/go to school. That's one reason my g-son chose a school close to home; he knew he could get an engineering job at Entergy or in the petroleum industry as soon as he graduated with his BS in mechanical engineering.

I can speak to San Francisco and L.A. (and I'll assume New York is no different). Kids come from all over the country, heck even the world, post graduation to work here. There can be a benefit to going to a local school because of the alumni base but I've never heard of people hiring saying they would interview/not interview a person based on whether they went to school in an urban or small college town environment. They can definitely base that decision on the quality of the school though.

I have plenty of friends I grew up with in Oakland that left the Bay Area or state for college and moved back post graduation. They were not punished, or unable to get jobs, because they didn't stay local for college. My folks went to undergrad in a small college town in Ohio. They said lots of their classmates moved to Chicago for a period of time post graduation. If having to go to college in Chicago was a requirement to get a job in Chicago I would assume most wouldn't have moved there.

 

[Phantasmal]

I have a Central Market (Much better than a Whole Foods) just a mile from me a Shopping center the same distance. There is a Whole Foods about 5 miles from me. There is a krogers a Tom Thumbs about 3/4 mile from me a Home Depot and Lowes less than 1/2 mile away. We don't have to worry about stepping in poop. We have no violent crime and we don't have to put up with Nancy Pelosi. or homeless people. An urban lifestyle is how life was meant to be lived.

Central Market here in Houston is my favorite market! The HEB chain is one of the best grocery chains I have encountered.

 

[ThatOwlWoman]

I can speak to San Francisco and L.A. (and I'll assume New York is no different). Kids come from all over the country, heck even the world, post graduation to work here. There can be a benefit to going to a local school because of the alumni base but I've never heard of people hiring saying they would interview/not interview a person based on whether they went to school in an urban or small college town environment. They can definitely base that decision on the quality of the school though.

I have plenty of friends I grew up with in Oakland that left the Bay Area or state for college and moved back post graduation. They were not punished, or unable to get jobs, because they didn't stay local for college. My folks went to undergrad in a small college town in Ohio. They said lots of their classmates moved to Chicago for a period of time post graduation. If having to go to college in Chicago was a requirement to get a job in Chicago I would assume most wouldn't have moved there.

As I said in another post, it depends on what your major is. Employers do consider the quality and prestige of an education based on where you got it. A law degree from Liberty U isn't nearly as valuable as one from Harvard, eh?

 

[Cypress]

It also depends on your major and what job opportunities there might be for you where you live/go to school. That's one reason my g-son chose a school close to home; he knew he could get an engineering job at Entergy or in the petroleum industry as soon as he graduated with his BS in mechanical engineering.

Smart kid!
There are so many intangibles that go into a choice of college, and individual circumstances come into play. I certainly have friends who went to colleges way out in rural areas, and they still successfully navigated getting interviews and landing jobs. I have a friend of went to a small state college way out in rural western Maryland, and now he is an instructor at the US Naval academy!

 

[cawacko]

As I said in another post, it depends on what your major is. Employers do consider the quality and prestige of an education based on where you got it. A law degree from Liberty U isn't nearly as valuable as one from Harvard, eh?

No question about the quality of the school. I think that far more trumps location (although a local alumni network definitely helps). And major matters (certain schools that may not be ranked highly overall could have excellent programs - as a sports fan I think of Syracuse where a large number of top broadcasters went).

This may be a more extreme example but Darmouth is in Hanover, New Hampshire. I don't know too many big companies in Hanover, let alone New Hampshire. But if we're looking at a resume (in SF) between Darmouth or San Francisco State, Darmouth is likely to win out over the local school.