Good on you!

Everything in this country (e-v-e-r-y-t-h-i-n-g) has a price on it due to our runaway rampant economic system.

Our system belligerently markets everything to all citizens endlessly. People just don't do things here, first they have to know what will be the cost or charge, and with time this pattern has become rampant or pervasive.

Your education reveal is most revealing. She will get over it, now if you could only bring the So-Cal weather along with, but, that would be a big price too. I mean, look at the real estate in So-Cal, or many places in the US now.