Wow, so your parents plan to move after you are accepted to SD?
I don’t think you will get instate tuition for 4 years because you are moving, with them, for “educational purposes”. They are not moving for promised jobs; they are moving for you. It will be difficult to prove, chronologically, to the FA offices, that they didn’t move for educational purposes. If they can’t find jobs, which is very likely, you and they will be stuck.
If they are worried about tuition costs, wait until they get hit with our housing costs. In addition to high California State property taxes, transportation costs, health insurance, and just day-to-day meals, everything here, in San Diego, has fees and taxes. Their W-2 deductions will floor them, their cell phone bills have California fees; we pay taxes on everything!! We call it the “sun” tax. Unless your parents are needed in the high-tech or medical fields, decent pay will be limited.
I work with an agency that works with the homeless. Most of our “clientele” are like your parents; very naive about what it takes, financially, to move here. They end up overspending on rents and then losing their savings. Jobs with decent pay are almost non-existent because the competition for jobs is fierce. The competition for housing is fierce. Their dollar won’t go far in California for property. The housing is smaller, non-existent yards looking directly into the neighbor’s dining room, and extremely expensive.
Those of us who live here, who can survive, have had properties, for a while, that have ballooned in value.
Who thought of this plan?