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Re:Our unpredictable and overburdened schedules are taking a... by ghaff on Friday October 11, 2019 @11:45AM (#21225472)
My first suspicion upon reading this was that some writer or editor observed that they weren't getting together with friends as much as they used to and spun a story with some plausible theories and anecdotes out of it.

The real answer may be as simple as they got a bit older, people they know got busy with partners, family, kids, etc. and tend not to be available on random nights and weekends.

I'm willing to believe that there are meta-trends which have caused shifts in how and how much people socialize in addition to this but I'd need to be convinced.

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Re:Our unpredictable and overburdened schedules are taking a... by luckydata on Friday October 11, 2019 @03:01PM (#21227346)
No, I come from a country where having friends is not strange at any age. The US are weird and can't put my finger on it but I never felt so detached. I will definitely leave when I'm done working, I hate the lifestyle here, it's so hollow and boring.
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Re:Our unpredictable and overburdened schedules are taking a... by solean on Friday October 11, 2019 @04:45PM (#21228306)
The US is a big place. You would have a different experience in Georgia than you would in SF.
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Re:Our unpredictable and overburdened schedules are taking a... by luckydata on Friday October 11, 2019 @09:43PM (#21229996)
I lived in California and Michigan. In most of the ways that matter it's not that different.
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