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Re:The outsize influence of middle-school friends by Terr_ on Thursday February 13, 2020 @07:59PM (#22322992)
Hmmm, perhaps you don't even need uprooting: I spent many formative years in an American-run school overseas, which had high student turnover, perhaps in the realm of 10-30% per year.

Now I wonder what implicit lessons I may have taken away from being one of the few "old timers" as everybody else kept cycling through.

Returning to the US, I had a hard time wrapping my head around the idea that some kids went to the same local schools their parents had.

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Re:The outsize influence of middle-school friends by AptExtrapolatio on Friday February 14, 2020 @01:33AM (#22324422)
Are you me?! Seriously though, I was in this exact same situation growing up and I can certainly relate to the other comments around not being great at maintaining long term friendships. Just another data point, but I do think there’s a similar effect in this sort of counter-scenario.
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