Moving area during college years

[Samuraisammy]

Hi all, does anyone have success stories of moving area just before college begins?
It will be a completely new area and our teen is adaptable and doesn’t seem to hold much resentment to not joining friends at the same college. It will be a new city quite further out so would not really be able to split time with old friends unless school holidays.
Any experience would be appreciated, ways to helps teen settle into new area at this age. I was thinking sports clubs etc? Has it worked out okay?
Thank you :D

My eldest started college and was encouraged to form a friendship with a dc whom had moved 400 miles. It was difficult at first due to online learning but since being able to meet up, meet up from time to time and see each other at college 3 x a week. The college encourage weekly sports activities (every Wednesday afternoon no formal lessons happen), which provides a wider circle of friends and this year they're starting other extra curricular activities. From what I hear the dc has struggled (perhaps more due to online learning even now they are 50/50 face to face / online) but has formed friendships, a group of them go out for tea once a week, occasionally cinema after college. I think the main thing is putting yourself out there, my dc says he'd have struggled and wouldn't have been able to create such friendship groups from scratch in a middle of pandemic so this dc has done amazingly well.

@Jigsawprison Thanks for your reply, really encouraging words. It was either this or remove our teen half way through High School. Or is it better to do that?
Seems to be a real grey area with when to move with teens, when’s with Primary aged pupils it’s more talked about and acceptable.
There is understandable concern for moving teens but not many tend to post about it, usually saying to wait until uni. Which is a long wait all in all.

I had to move areas age 16. Was a negative experience for me, I struggled to make friends and dropped out of college after 4 months. I still hold some resentment towards my mum for it and wouldn't do it to my DS. Sorry, not very encouraging but that's my honest experience. I guess it depends on the individual teen though.

@Waxonwaxoff0 Hi no thank you so much for sharing your experience. It’s good to hear the negatives too. Do you think moving during Uni is better then? The area our child wants to study in, there are only a select few Uni’s that specialise in this subject. So child would be studying in area we would like to move to.

@Waxonwaxoff0 Sorry to hear you had a tough time with it all 🌸