FYI, you're not the only one who feels like this. Although those East coast boarding schools have traditionally had a fairly large number of students from the west coast, and further (Alaska, Hawaii, Asia, the Middle East, etc.), they have experienced a recent phenomenon - parents who move East for the three or four years of their children's boarding school education. That's their answer to number 7 - they move so that they do have a boarding school in their backyard - and the cheaper day student tuition.
