They each have a few thousand dollars in loans, and they both did some work study. The rest for grants. Also it’s easy for students who get financial aid in California to get EBT.
Few thousand in loans for an undergrad degree is amazing.
Yeah, that’s from UC. My eldest spent a year at a private school and I think we had 25,000 in loans from that year. I paid that off.
I thought she did the CC → UC route? Why go private instead of UC?
My eldest spent a year at a private college and then she went to various junior colleges and then transferred to UC berkeley. My youngest went to Santa Monica college and transferred to UC Santa Cruz.
Out of curiosity, what made her do the year of private college vs skipping that step?
I would say probably pride.
In hindsight it was good other than costing a lot. It was nice to go to a very small school where they gave you a lot of attention and she was pretty young. And it turned out that her experience at Berkeley was kind of messed up socially because of her stupid boyfriend, so it was nice that she had a good experience going away to college her first year. Nano, my youngest, had her first couple of years of college during lockdown anyway so community college worked out well for that. And she is having a fantastic time at UC Santa Cruz. It all worked out pretty great. The cost was very very low aside from the year of private school. Bro graduated with honors. Nano has like a 3.97.
Reminds me of when I was in that spot. I can assure you that I understand exactly what you mean better than most.
This is more lamentation than substance but I found it interesting and something I could agree with nonetheless.
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Child #2 now has a driver’s license. 19 years of regularly needing to drive and pick up children hither and yon is over.
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The price tag for my freedom has come in. Yearly cost for auto insurance for myself, my wife, and the two kids: just shy of $15K.
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I thought I was paying a lot.
But then you probably have more coverage. We don’t just have liability, but not much more.
Our cars are 11 and 9 years old respectively and we arent putting a third on for our 17 year old yet, so we arent close to this but yeeesh
Nice capitalism you have there.
I pay around $500 a year for our 1 car for me and the wife, full package everything you can think of. Through my union which has the best insurance deals ever.
Yeah two of the cars are leased so it’s full coverage on everything. And we’re covering four cars.
For LFS’s situation the problem is less capitalism and more young drivers. They cost a fuckton to insure because they are far more likely to get into accidents (and probably more expensive ones). Things are much more reasonable for a middle aged man with a spotless driving record and a normal car.
Is it different over in your part of France?
grunch, soulman is french? I thought scandi.
It’s a joke from 22. In H&F we used to kind of pretend to be boorish Americans who thought that France was more or less all of Europe.
He’s Norwegian and he knows that I know.
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and please be specific
Young drivers do cost quite a bit more, that’s true. Though not anywhere near that level!
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