No joke. Anymore, you send your young people to college and all you’re doing is sending them into a shark-tank for shake-down rackets. College towns are just bent on wrenching every nickel from them possible. From the parking tickets handed out on streets that are completely unmarked (you’re responsible for knowing every line of the city code and all ordinances, ignorance of them is no excuse!) to the cops that hand out bogus tickets to anybody with an out-of-state plate, sticker, or any other marker depicting that the person isn’t from around there to the shysters getting everybody and anybody to sign up for credit cards. For what you see out on the town, it’s redoubled on-campus. It’s like Vegas, it’s all gamed to separate the student from their money. I know, I lived it for 5 years getting my undergrad degree and it made me a lot more careful of where I got my master’s.
Thanks for the mention.
I wasn’t aware the local community was geared to sapping kids dry too.
I’m glad you made it through.
It’s a mess and it seems to be sliding downhill fast from here.
You wind up wondering how much worse it could get.