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Re:You'd Be Happier Living Closer to Friends. Why Don't You? by eertami on Tuesday April 18, 2023 @08:40AM (#35613200)
The benefit isn't so much that you can be friends with your neighbours, but that the density makes all distances shorter and by extension your friends are still much closer.

In a suburb many of my friends would be 15+ minutes away by car. In the city I live in now (almost entirely apartments/multi-household buildings), almost all of my friends are within a 15 minute walk. It has been a massive improvement to my social life, mostly due to the ease at which gatherings can spontaneously/easily occur.

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Re:You'd Be Happier Living Closer to Friends. Why Don't You? by shortrounddev on Tuesday April 18, 2023 @09:27AM (#35613702)
It seems vastly harder to make friends in a city, to me. When I lived in the suburbs, it was really simple to make friends. In the city, I dont know anyone. I agree that its nice to live so close to friends, but it seems impossible to MAKE any in the city.
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