Correct me if I'm wrong here, because I don't know anything about the US school system. When you say you go to one of the best schools in your country, I'm guessing you mean one of the best community colleges, and community colleges are like a cheaper, easier to get into, shittier version of real colleges, right? Like the prostitutes of the educational instutions? So you go to one of the best community colleges in the country, but how does it actually compare to the real college your girlfriend is going to? Being optimistic here, maybe you've assumed that the college she's going to isn't very good because of its 50% acceptance rate, but since it's a real college maybe it's still better than your school because that's just a community college? I don't know about over in the US, but here in the UK the "league tables" for all of the educational institutions are widely available, so for example when I wanted to choose a university, I could easily find a list with all the universities that offered the course I wanted, and then could have them listed ranked by amount of students who graduated with a first class/2:1/2:2 etc class degree for 2014, average salary of graduates 1/2/5/10 years after graduating, number of published researchers on the faculty, even student satisfaction etc, so you could have a comprehensive list of which schools were best for any particular subject on absolutely any metric you wanted. Is there any US equivalent to the sites like this that we have over here? Just a thought, because going by their acceptance rate alone is a pretty unreliable indicator of the school's quality. Your community college may have a tiny acceptance rate, but that doesn't necessarily make it one of the most esteeemed & prestigious schools in the country, and just because the cali school has a 50% acceptance rate, that doesn't make it a really shitty school either. Again, correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't saying you go to one of the most prestigious community colleges a little like saying you're the calmest methhead or the tallest midget or the smallest giant?
Lots of people are saying that you shouldn't do it because it's just a high school romance, you argue a lot with your girlfriend, have already broken up once and will probably do so again. Whilst all of them are right, in my mind it's irrelevant. As long as there's a good few months left in the relationship, then fucking go for it man. When we get older we'll get more & more responsibilities and won't be able to just get up and move to California. You have the chance now and I bet it'll be a fucking BLAST, even if you're single! If you live in some small boring town now, then hell yeah pack your shit up and go to California! If it's been a dream of yours anyway then even if it all falls to shit with your girlfriend, who cares? It would have happened anyway, but instead of crying in the woods or whatever, you can cry on the beach, smoking a joint, feeling the California sun, catch some waves, eye up the gorgeous California girls and start looking for some babe as your next girlfriend!
California will be an adventure with or without the girl, I'd say definitely go for it. Look up the school first, maybe you'll find it's better than you thought, or at least maybe it'll be better than the community college you go to now. If it isn't that good, you can always look for a different school in California. You don't *have* to go to the same school she does, and I'm sure there's more than one there, and i'd wager there are probably at least a few that are better than the one you go to at the moment. I'd say start doing your research and go for it. By the by, just curious, what is it you study?
