<p>Interesting thread. My personal experience was the same. Fled small(ish) NE prep school in VERY small town for the warm and urban atmosphere of Nashville, TN (didn’t hurt that my parents went to school there too), but it was the cold and snow that drove me south (and I was raised in DC, not florida :), so it wasn’t that foreign to me). Now my daughter who is at a small (400 kids 6-12th grade) BS in even a smaller town (population less than 100, no businesses that I can tell) wants to flee for the larger urban schools too. No interest at all in LAC’s, even those in big cities. We raised her in downtown Atlanta, so she is familiar and comfortable with the amenities of city life and really thinks that she’s been robbed the past 4 years of something critical. I wish she would think harder, but alas. Its her first real adult decision.</p>