It's the same thing with cars. UNH has (or had) a pretty good Chinese exchange program when I was in college and you could see a couple Chinese students driving super expensive sports cars because they were from rich families.

It's so much cheaper that they'd buy it while their kid was here and just ship it back to China when they left.

I stayed in Babcock, which had a large chunk of the exchange students and one of them explained it at one point.

Pretty sure there was some kid who got pulled over for going stupid fast on route years ago.

Pretty interesting economic little things.