Relocating with kids in college?

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<p>My parents moved a month after I started college. Instead of spending time with high school friends during Thanksgiving break, I had to get a ride with a student I didn’t know to a house I’d never seen. The upside was that home was now an hour and a half away instead of four hours. The downside was that I never did make any friends there.</p>

<p>Now S is in the same situation. He’s starting his second year of college, and H and I are retiring and moving out of state in October. The distance between home and school will increase from under an hour to around 3 1/2 hours. At least we’re moving to within 10 minutes of both families, so S is familiar with the area and has a whole herd of relatives there.</p>

<p>S goes to a state school, so unfortunately I’ll have to let his dad (who is remaining in-state) take the dependent tax exemption even though S will be living with us.</p>

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<p>Marian, I’d be angry too! My family moved every few years and moved back to the US while I was in college, first to a house where I’d lived before, then for a year to New York. Then they went overseas again and moved to yet another new location in the US when I was in grad school. While it was harder to get to see my high school friends, I found that a surprising number of them also had parents who ended up moving. </p>

<p>My oldest son enjoyed seeing high school friends the first year of college, but after that his life really revolved around his college friends. I remember being quite surprised how little I saw of my high school best friend who attended the same college I did.</p>