USMA, you are a generous parent. My kids understood that coming home for Fall and Spring breaks would not be in the budget if they went somewhere that required an expensive plane ticket home. They ended up at Amtrak/Greyhound bus distances-- which was nice- but I tried to “pay it forward” by having the kids friends who lived far away come to us for any break where they couldn’t go home. And our garage housed some kids stuff over the summer, and a kid moved in with us in between graduation and the start of his job because he couldn’t move into an apartment until he got a paycheck!