Well, I think I’m pretty qualified, since I’ve done almost every living arrangement possible. 
I went to a local college with no dorms and lived with my parents 45 minutes away. Most of my friends lived near the college. It didn’t put too much of a cramp in my social life until winter. It still sucked to wake up an hour earlier than everyone else and get home an hour later, though.
I finished all the courses I could take at my local satellite campus, so now I am at the main campus of the State U. Now I live in an apartment three miles from my classes. If I could drive in, it would not be a big deal, but as it is, I like walking in to class every day. In the fall semestre, though, my friends are moving here and into the dorms. Also, in the extra-crappy PA winter, there is no way I would wanna be walkin’ around to get to class.
It all depends on what your aunt is like.
When the fall