<p>You can always move to Boston after you graduate if you love it so much. You want to be at a school in the geographic area of where you want to work after graduation, but, IMO, spending extra money just to live in a certain city as a student is folly because you can enjoy a city more when you’re a young working professional with money to spend than when you’re a broke college student (assuming that you don’t have parents to bankroll you). And saving money now means you’ll have more money to spend later.</p>
<p>You seem to like BU better, but go in with your eyes open: It likely won’t give you a leg up or anything like that compared to going to Stony Brook.</p>