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skipsmom, I live in a pristine, upper-middle class suburb on the west coast. I grew up in pristine Boulder, CO in the 60s-70s. I have lived in many places in between, all of which (except one) share the common characteristic of a "best place to live." The one exception was graduate school in the late 70s, at NYU, when NYC was a total dump. I moved to New York in the middle of a late summer, hot, humid garbage strike, endured the crime/garbage spree of Mayor Koch, and bought a cheap bike to commute during the subway strike. The contrast between Columbia today, and Columbia then, is striking. My younger son, who visited Harvard, Yale, Princeton, MIT, Stanford and Columbia (among others), decided while on the Columbia campus that Columbia was the place to be. He applied ED and, thank God, got admitted. Was it my choice? No, but I'm not the one spending the next four years on a college campus. I enjoy spending a few days every year in Augusta, GA, but I would not want to spend the next four years there. If my son did, however, I would totally support him.
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