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Originally Posted by Wormius
Nothing against U of C (though I have been on the receiving end of some very iffy engineering interns though). We are just philosophically opposed to our kids sticking around in their comfort zones. Time to spread their wings and fly and have new experiences with the safety net a little further away.
Plus their rooms are already being allocated for other purposes. My home office is moving up for the basement to a nice sunny room.
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Interesting perspective. I'm as insistent as I can be that they should stay in Calgary for post-secondary. My kids are in grades 11 & 12 right now, but I hope they stay at home for the first year or two, then I'd like to put a down payment on a house for them to live in and rent half out to cover the mortgage. I see going out of town for school as a waste of money that puts you further behind financially at a fairly critical time in life.
Plus, there is the risk of them meeting and pairing up with somebody from a different city. That just makes family get togethers, visiting future grandkids, spending easy/causal time together orders of magnitude harder. Fk that, I want to be able to hang with my kids more than just a couple times a year.
I would like to see them take a year off before university or after, though. Go live in a ski town or resort area or cruise ship or something for a year. Then you get some independence, an away-from-home experience and you get
paid to do it.
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Originally Posted by puffnstuff
I was repainting my oldest sons room to start it becoming my office as he was pulling out of the driveway on his way to university
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I won't be doing that. I'm going to keep their rooms theirs for as long as possible. I don't even have a big house, but I'd like the kids to have a comfortable place to come home to until they're well established in life.