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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think it has to do with permanency of your network - the amount of people who live further away from where they grew up now is higher than it was in the 50s. Hence lots of people travel for the holidays and are out of town, those remaining g behind don’t want to throw parties for just a handful of people?[/quote]

This is part of it for sure. My daughter has 1 friend of maybe 10ish of her closest friends in town this week, and that friend is booked solid with cousin/aunt/uncle visiting. All of my friends are out of town. I'll note that my family is mostly no longer living, so I took the advice of building my own chosen family. Except that my chosen family happens to have their own families that they go visit on holidays.

I'm going crazy not being able to have anyone over and I can't even text or FaceTime to catch up with my out-of-town friends and family because they're all busy hosting their own guests. We make up for it by hosting early in the season right after Thanksgiving and in the first week of December, but then this part of the season feels lonely and empty. And our neighborhood is totally dead- I have no idea where everyone has gone, so even if I wanted to invite neighbors who I don't know well over for something, there's no one home.

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