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APARTMENT GUIDE MONDAY, MARCH 8, 2010 THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN / KANSAN.COM
Living with parents has benefits
Students save money, but don't lose freedom when staying with family
BY YEN PHAN
yphan@kansan.com
Some students come to college eager to get out of their parents' house, and plan to return to live there only if there is no other option
Other students, however, choose to remain living with their parents. Despite the usual assumptions about living with your parents — or other family members these students find it convenient, and perhaps surprisingly, not restrictive.
Ojas Patel, a freshman from Overland Park, chose to live
parents. He takes the K-10 Connector Bus to school everyday.
"I don't have the experience of living in dorms like other students, but living at home is comfortable and I don't need to worry as much as other students
"I know it's a good learning experience to live on your own but I don't have a problem with my parents because they want what's best for me."
OJAS PATEL Overland Park freshman
Park, chose to live at home with his
that live by themselves." Patel said. "I know it's a good learning experience to live on your own, but I don't have a problem living with my parents because they want the best for me."
Patel said there were benefits to living with his parents. "They don't really have rules for me but they do help guide successful in school."
me to become successful in school,"
Patel said. "I enjoy being with my family as well."
jordan La Force, a junior from Nickerson, moved to Lawrence to live in his aunt and uncle's house. He pays $225 a month for rent with all utilities paid.
"Its great living with my aunt and uncle, they are very easy going." La Force said. "They treat me like an adult and not like a child at all. They also let me make my own choices. I get plenty of privacy and I get to have friends over whenever I like."
La Force currently lives three minutes from campus so it's easy for him to get to class.
Although Jordan isn't living with his parents, his aunt and uncle are still providing him a home to live in and substitute as being parents to La Force.
Edited by Melissa Johnson
Some students choose to live with parents or other relatives while in college. Jordan La Force, who lives with his aunt and uncle said that they treated him like an adult.
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