@SevenDad I earlier made a tongue-in-cheek joke about myself not wanting to deal with the cultural shock of moving to the south, but a point I’d seriously make is that if for the purpose of receiving proper undergraduate academic training only, there’s no NEED for going out of region for college. Unless you bestow more meaning to education do you start justifying traveling hundreds or even thousands of miles to attend a school. It seems “southerners” are more practical in that sense. They wouldn’t even care about a world renown university when it’s not regional. Isn’t it a little strange to “criticize” northeasterners for not being adventurous enough to explore schools in the south in this context? Is being open minded to educational opportunities a more pressing issue to northeasterners (and BS population even??) among others?