The Walk - Starkville - It's Being Built on Wingo Way and It's Huge...

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Originally Posted by Todd4State

I think you're right. I did get some living money from my parents every month- but it was basically for food and necessities like toothpaste.

And like I said I think there is an "image" thing for some people. A place with granite counter tops that looks like a resort may be appealing to some of those people.

I think you're right that there is an image thing for some but I think there was a weird dynamic with student loans. I swear I think for middle class students when I was there, there was almost an inverse relationship between spending money and where in the middle class the family fell. For people at the upper edge of middle class that had managed to save some for college and also could cash flow some of it so that taking out a loan wasn't a necessity, I think those kids were living like poor college kids, but making it more or less debt free. I feel like once making it debt free wasn't an option, everybody went ahead and took the max loan and parents just kept spending the same amount or more on the kids as they spent in high school. But again, I was in the thick of the college debt is "good debt" and I think once you applied, they pretty much encouraged you to take the max.