New directory after Migration (/var (from old Mac)

I just set up a new Macbook Pro, and used the Migration Assistant to transfer my data from my old system. Everything went fine and looks good. However, I'm seeing a top level directory on the new HD:
/var (from old Mac)
I assume it's a copy of the /var directory from the old MBP. My question is - can I safely remove it? It's taking up almost 4gb of space (sure on a 500gb hd that's not much, but if I don't need it...)

A A P L wrote:
My (hidden) /var is 4+GB and that's normal.
it depends on how big your swap files get and on whether or not you are using safe sleep which tends to create large sleep image files. so for a laptop 4GB /var might be normal. on my mac pro it's around 600MB as I almost never run out of RAM to need swap files and and I don't use safe sleep. another reason it might get too big if you have a runaway log and /var/log grows too much. there is nothing else in /var that should take a lot of space.
But I agree, I would not delete it in case it's just "visible"
OP: IN the Finder, hit Command-Shift-G.
Type: /private
Get info on the var folder there.
Is it the same as the visible one?
Or, you can Control-click on the Title-bar of the var folder window. The path with show in the drop-down. What does it show?
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