I was sent that article and I noted in response
Have no reason to believe the below take is incorrect except perhaps and only perhaps that the take might be a bit exaggerated, but am agnostic on that exaggeration. If true, the take, and if it is the Capitol Hill intention to double-down on education budget, then, in the absence of a culture revolution, would mean accelerating into the known. If OTOH an intervening culture revolution and the then inevitable counter-revolution, then … Columbia is a good school by many measures. So was Tsinghua in 1966. Perhaps culture revolutions, historically speaking, is both natural and recurring, just that we have not been taught in the terms necessary to take in the bad news and recognize the patterns. Watch & brief, but remaining agnostic.
As to the particular school (Columbia) in question, doubtful if stand-alone case, but still a good school particularly if one likes the arts, wishes to continue training in performance, and be in a cosmopolitan center. Housing is certainly ‘affordable’ relative to HK
Was sent details of a friend’s studio apartment located 1 mile from the University on the same side of the river, and the asking price is less than half of the cost of a parking space in Hong Kong, what one might term a ‘steal’.Wife referred it to a friend of hers with a kid currently at Columbia and shall see.
I would want the coconut to do apartment share with her eventual friends.
We also figure the nut shall spend 1 year at some other global locale as part of her education, should Shen wish, and she is keen now but do not know what would happen at decision time, so am not counting on it.
I reckon renting much more reasonable.
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