I’m pretty sure the lienholder appears on titles in your name in New York based on used cars I bought. But you should post this question in GQ. I don’t recall the title requirements in New York, I never had a lien holder on a title for a car I owned there. You’re supposed to transfer the title in something like 30 days, but there is gray area based on when you actually change your residence. I went through this in California, I ended up staying there a year, but never knew how long I would be there, or how long I would stay. It helped that I still owned a house in New York when I said I wasn’t a resident.
I think I’d be able to use my mom’s address in IL if it turns out it’s better to wait and change my official residency later on (I could just say I was a student). But I don’t really have a reason to wait other than laziness. And since I’ll be working and paying income tax in NY immediately, it makes more sense to sort that out ASAP.
*Hands of Fate
Yes! YES! I did it! My background check cleared and I got a firm offer. ITHACA OR BUST! toot
Congrats, and welcome to the Empire State!
Sorry for the drive-by, but after reading the OP the first reply that came to mind, having been to Cornell, is “TOPOGRAPHY”.
Ithica is in a part of New York with some really cool rock formations, waterfalls and wooded areas. I think Cornell has one of the highest suicide rates among colleges solely because there’s so many damns cliffs with houses built up to the edge of them.
I can’t speak to much about culture shock having only spent a beer fueled weekend there, but my thought would be that the most jarring thing about the people there relative to people in the Chicago burbs will be money. It seemed like most people in NY come from money, assume that everyone has money in their family and aren’t very tolerant of those who are frugal/broke. Mind you, my contact there is almost entirely with relatively privileged Ivy league students and grads and residents of Brooklyn and Manhattan so you should take this with a huge grain of salt. Chicago isn’t a poor place, but even today it feels much more like a “new money” vs. “old money” difference.
Thank you! Submitted my 2 weeks’ notice today and my inner child is squeeing and bouncing off the walls. haha!
This is really interesting. And, since I’m planning to apply for Cornell jobs eventually, it’s good information to have. I’m from humble West Virginny hillbilly stock, strictly blue collar until my mom went to nursing school. I’m the first generation of my family without a trace of a southern accent. I can honestly say I’ve never known anyone from “old money.” The college I went to was fairly bumpkin compared to an Ivy. Could you expound more on the difference? I don’t really know what to expect. Would these kinds of people be rude if I fail to have a Fossil watch, Hermes scarf, and Prada bag?
I don’t think it’ll affect me much socially, but it could affect me professionally. My boyfriend is broke as shit. So are all his friends, and so am I. I’m not too worried about it though, I know the Ivies offer a lot of scholarships to promising applicants from adversarial backgrounds. We won’t be the only po’ folks in town!
Notice how he says his experience relates to Brooklyn and Manhattan and ivy league, presumably Columbia, grads.
Remember how people keep saying, “new York state is not new York City”? You will be moving into an isolated, rural area which is fairly economically depressed but for the university. And regardibg the university, portions of Cornell are state school, and portions are private. I don’t think you see too many designer handbags among the cow vet students.
Yeah, the only things I saw during my two years at Cornell relating to wealthy families (other than having a lot of students from them) were that the workload was large enough that having to work 10 hours a week to supplement my educational fund definitely impacted my ability to study and do homework versus those who didn’t have to, and a guy I worked with was surprised when I guess that he was from NYS because he was in the (state-affiliated, slightly cheaper) Ag department and on work-study. I think he was assuming haughtiness on my part if he was poor, while I myself was below the average income for attendees.
However, town-gown not getting together, I saw slightly more of. There were some full-time union employees of the cafeteria as well and they didn’t want to associate with the students during breaks, and most were not even work-polite to them during work while usually avoiding indisputable rudeness (think Minnesota nice without the nice), and this sometimes worked both ways. There were exceptions of course.
Actually I was referring to Cornell specifically w.r.t. the Ivy leaguers.
I do want to re-state that my experiences are not to be assumed to be representative. Just a few dozen data points within a very specific data set. However, if you’re going to be spending a ton of time with Cornell students and the like it might apply.
I don’t want to say that they will universally be one way or another, obviously people are people. Here are some characteristics I found common:
- Everyone went to summer camp, if you didn’t they would look at you funny and ask what you did all summer.
- Everyone had at least one relative with a lake house, summer home or house in the Hamptons that they’d disappear to on the summer weekends.
- They were a little preoccupied with clothing. The jeans and a t-shirt thing isn’t really that standard there which made us mid-westerners stand out a little.
- Economically depressed in upstate New York is a much different thing than economically depressed in the rust belt. Spent a lot of time in Buffalo and they have it pretty good compared to Gary, Lansing or Columbus.
Just a few observations.
I am from Ithaca and went to Cornell.
Yes, you will find plenty of rich students at Cornell. Mostly new money, not old money. Though the student body at Ithaca College on average is wealthier than Cornell students.
I come from a blue collar, humble hill people background. You are unlikely to have any more trouble with irritating entitled rich kids than you did wherever you went to college. Probably less, because the students will barely notice you if you’re staff and the rest of the staff will be middle class and working class.
Ithaca is not a John Hughes movie set. 
ETA - I do not mean to discount Omniscient’s experience. Just saying that it is far from universal and you’re unlikely to encounter those attitudes going about your daily life in Ithaca.
Thanks again for the insights, everybody. I realize Omniscient’s experience may not be prevalent or reflect Ithaca as a whole. I just have an amateur interest in psychology and group interactions, so I like talking about it. 
My boyfriend’s roommate works part-time with him, while holding down a job at Cornell. There are no students in either of their social circles. I’d definitely be on the “town” side of the tracks. We used to call them “townies” when I was in college, not out of malice but as a descriptor.
Oddly enough, my boyfriend’s family actually has a lake house! Maybe they *used *to be old money, because they sure don’t have much now. And they don’t put on airs, thankfully
I’m from upstate NY, and I have a lake house, and I get all paranoid about it when I talk about it in New York City. A lake house sounds like, well, a lake house … but for the rest of the state, there are a lot of lakes to begin with so plenty of people have them. So I will say “a lake house, but it’s more like a lake cabin, really. More of a shack. A hovel, even.” So yeah, a “lake house” in NY state at large could mean anything.
I have seen pictures! It’s a cabin-sized house, but it’s not made of logs. Anyway, the lake is the important part. Does yours come with one of those? 
Update: I’m all relocated! Didn’t drop off the face of the earth, but I’ve been off the face of the internet for awhile. BTW I love this place. The Ithaca Festival was this weekend. Very interesting mix of people in the city.Gas is cheaper and a tank goes a lot farther, since everything is so close together. The biggest differences I’ve noticed are attitudinal and topographical. I work downtown and live up the hill. Lots of hills, ears pop a lot. People are way more laid-back here than I’m used to, which is great.
Having a great time, and thanks again for all the advice!