<p>if you plan on flying to college how are you supposed to get your car there? is shipping expensive? would life suck without it?</p>
<p>shipping is easy with usps flat rate priority boxes</p>
<p>unless youre going to a commuter school, most people dont have cars and life probably wont suck without it.</p>
<p>It depends. Some schools you don’t really need a car to get around with. You don’t HAVE to take your car to college. </p>
<p>But if you decide to… when kids are coming from other states, they drive to school. I know a girl from Florida who goes to my school. She drove all the way up here to Jersey.</p>
<p>edit: oh, I see you stated something about “flying”. How about driving? Is your school too far?</p>
<p>@hahahahah- i dont think i can ship my car in priority boxes :)</p>
<p>and i’m looking at pepperdine, which is about 2200 miles away from here</p>
<p>errr no just no.</p>
<p>at my school car parking and such is a total nightmare, i’ll walk thanks.</p>
<p>Unless you’re going to the University of Hawaii, I don’t see why you should SHIP your car when it’s meant to be DRIVEN.</p>
<p>If I go to school in DC I definitely do NOT need a car. I think if you’re going to school on the East, it will be easier to not own a car. If you live in the South or West you might want a car because that is the most common type of transportation (in Arizona there are only bus routes downtown).</p>
<p>driving 32 hours wasn’t really an appealing option for me.</p>
<p>just a word of advice: If you do take a car, make sure you get the parking pass or parking. If your school is anything like mine, you will be ticketed every freaking day until your car has a boot on it. And they ticket at the most obscure times like 3am</p>
<p>It’s nice to have one. It’s a means to go places off the busline, and a great way to get friends to suck up to you and offer to throw you gas money or buy you some T Bell. Insurance kind of kills you, and parking, but it’s nice. Other people will have them though.</p>
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<p>You’re going to miss out on a lot in life if you don’t learn to enjoy the journey.</p>
<p>well are you comin along then? i’m not taking it alone</p>
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<p>lol you mean Case’s Ghetto Bell</p>
<p>People doing big cross-country moves generally have their cars shipped by truck or train. Just google “car shipping” or “car shipment.”</p>
<p>futurexecutive, I’ve already done the cross-country drive three times for work/school. Looking forward to doing it again when I finish with grad school. :)</p>
<p>Driving corss-country is fun. There’s just not quite something that compares to a roadtrip.</p>
<p>Get a few friends to come along, or if you can’t, find some ridesharers on Craigslist. Vet them on the phone first. In the worst case, you can often find someone to help you drive the car over.</p>
<p>Point is: a 32hr road trip isn’t bad.</p>
<p>If I was going to be somewhere long-term I wouldn’t mind the cross country trip at all! But if this was a trip I was going to be taking multiple times, at the start and beginning of every semester, I can definitely see OP’s point. That’s a LOT of money on gas and a LOT of miles on your car! Not to mention money on hotels, food, etc. along the way. </p>
<p>However, if you really want your car and the cost of shipping is going to be insane then it might possibly really be an option to consider.</p>
<p>Life isn’t impossible without a car. Just a little more inconvenient sometimes. Many- if not all- college cities will have some form of public transportation where there should be a student discount or free rides for students.</p>
<p>In LA, yes i would definitely have a car. Pepperdine is in the middle of no where… If you have a nice/new car I would ship it, otherwise I would just sell it and buy another one here.</p>
<p>do you go to pepperdine?? my car is a nissan 350z but it’s just a 2003 with over a 100k miles on it so i don’t really wanna put more than i have to on it.</p>
<p>No I don’t, but I live in LA and have ridden my motorcycle up PCH from Santa Monica to Malibu a bunch of times (which is the long way). It’s right by the ocean, it’s a nice location but to get anywhere you need to travel a bit. </p>
<p>If you want to get to the city you would need a car, or at least a friend with a car. If I were you I would sell the 350z and get a car that seats 4/5, I had a 2 seater and it was annoying at times because you can only take 1 passenger, and my car had a tiny trunk (honda s2000).</p>