We live abroad and plan to send our daughter home for college. We are considering moving to be in the same country with her as being on the other side of the world seems a bit far! We will most likely not be on the same coast as she ends up on (she has a real desire for proper “seasons!”) But we will settle for being within the same country.
When it was time for me to go to college I applied only to two because I knew I wanted to be in DC.
I also knew that DC was just far enough away that my Dad couldn’t pop around on the weekends (he would have!) but I could easily get home for the holidays (even flew Trump Airlines a few times!)