I am genuinely shocked that this was Kate's first visit to New York. I hope I don't sound like an ugly American because it's not that we're the greatest place in the world there are lots of places to go and enjoy but it is a little weird. New York City! Don't most rich people travel a lot? When I visited years ago I was in Bendel's and ran into several mother daughters from other countries. Really well dressed women on a shopping trip or with dad on his business. The Middletons only go to Mustique or Ibiza? She could have visited with school but didn't do that either, huh. She's a mystery that Kate. Just wanted William I guess.
This may need to be under a different topic, but what if the Midds laid out all of this money to take these trips to keep William intrigued/happy and with the costs of college/school for 3 kids on top of that and trying to maintain that posh lifestyle they just didn't have the spare cash for these kinds of trips. If he did go in on buying their home, maybe it was sort of a repayment because they weren't flush enough to pull it off themselves.
Also, there was no way Kate was going to separate herself from being more than a phone call away while she was trying to land him. It would have given him far too many opportunities to meet someone else and dump her. Just a thought.
I am genuinely shocked that this was Kate's first visit to New York. I hope I don't sound like an ugly American because it's not that we're the greatest place in the world there are lots of places to go and enjoy but it is a little weird. New York City! Don't most rich people travel a lot? When I visited years ago I was in Bendel's and ran into several mother daughters from other countries. Really well dressed women on a shopping trip or with dad on his business. The Middletons only go to Mustique or Ibiza? She could have visited with school but didn't do that either, huh. She's a mystery that Kate. Just wanted William I guess.
I've always found it odd, too. I'm an American and far from rich but I've managed to visit London (among other places in Europe). I actually had to fund these trips myself and work to get the money to do so!

Yup, I've managed New York a couple of times, London and a few places in Germany and I am definitely not rolling in it. But as I said above, maybe the funds just weren't there.