> From: http://www.cs..edu/~b > Date: Sat, 09 Dec 2017 20:49:03 -0800 > > Mid-July to early Aug, cost $6750 not including airfare, plus $974 if I want > a private bathroom. So, all in, I figure around $11K, which I don't have, so > I'd borrow it from my Home Equity Line of Credit, and just pay interest on it > for the rest of my life. (My plan is for Heath's trustee to sell the house > to pay it off and dole out the rest to Heath.) > > Is this stupid? Honestly it's largely the snob appeal of Oxford that makes > it attractive. It would be more fun if real Oxford students were around, but > I assume they aren't, because we'd be staying in their dorm rooms. And > since it's summer, the local kid schools are probably also closed, although > I'd have to check on that because iirc British schools have a really weird > calendar, sort of a 12-month quarter system, but I'm really hazy on it. BTW, Noelle suggested that you could rent out your house on airbnb for thousands of dollars per month. (Someone on our street is doing this for their house while they're in Europe or something.)