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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]PP again. [b]I grew up in PA,[/b] moved to NY when I was in high school, went to college and grad school in Boston and now live in DC (Virginia suburbs). [b]When I was younger, I used to kind of look down at the townies who basically hung out with their same friends from high school in college and beyond. Now I sort of envy them. Their kids are friends. They live close to their families. They may not make a ton of money but they have wonderful lives.[/b]

We have a seven figure HHI, live in a beautiful home, drive fancy cars, go on expensive vacations but I am often homesick. We have lots of social outings that we go on but I don't really feel super close to anyone we have met here. I think it is just different when making friends later in life.[/quote]

Same here. The people from my elementary school in small town Western PA who didn't leave the area are still close friends and their kids are now growing up together. Life just seems so much simpler. The women can afford to stay at home or work part time because the cost of living is so much lower. I guess the grass is always greener.....[/quote]

It's a bit off topic, but same here. I grew up in the middle of nowhere and moved around for college, grad school, spouse's post-doc, etc, and don't live close any old friends. It's hard to make those close friendships as an adult that are made in high school and college. I have met people, but really, it can be kind of lonely.[/quote]

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Interesting perspective. I had the opposite experience, probably because I'm a first generation immigrant. We moved to a small Midwest town when I was almost in high school and I never felt like I fit in, even though I had a few good friends there. I made a ton of friends in college, with whom I'm still in regular touch, and I have a ton of good friends here in the DC area, due to common ethnic background. I'm guessing you, OP, and most of the PPs are white.[/quote]

Not OP, but PP here. Yes, I'm American. Yours is an interesting perspective as well. Perhaps your common ethnic background is enough to bind you close together. Just as an example, I randomly met someone with whom I had a ton in common (neither of us from this area, but both of us from a similar area of the country) and thought we might become close. But she has a very, very tight group of friends who all went to law school together (that is, they travel internationally together, spend a lot of weekends together, visit each other's families on holidays, etc). I was just never able to really break into the group. And that's totally fine, of course. Just an example of how it's easier to make friends in a setting like college or grad school, and harder after, especially when others already have their primary friends group.

Anyway, sorry to hijack your thread OP.[/quote]

A PP here-yes I'm white American and one of the things that makes me happy about having left my small town is the lack of diversity there. So yeah, I can see your point.[/quote]

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