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A comment on The Challenge of Making Friends as an Adult. Parent comment

Re:The Challenge of Making Friends as an Adult by csomar on Sunday July 15, 2012 @06:06PM (#4248332)
That's what he said, you simply didn't read to the end

  so he could meet people on an equal footing.
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Re:The Challenge of Making Friends as an Adult by larrys on Sunday July 15, 2012 @06:25PM (#4248382)
"you simply didn't read to the end"

I did.

He said:

"The right thing to do probably would have been to move far away, live simply, and take up a hobby so he could meet people on an equal footing."

The fact that the above sentence says "live simply" and "take up a hobby" seems to contradict the notion that he should try to take up with people who are equal in wealth which was the issue being discussed.

I said

"live among people"

which is not the same as

"move far away"

and

"live simply"

is not the same as

"make friends with people in the same income bracket or assets or higher"

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Re:The Challenge of Making Friends as an Adult by glhaynes on Sunday July 15, 2012 @08:42PM (#4248764)
It's the taking up that's being done on an equal footing (i.e. the friendships are free from the wealth-disparity baggage); it's not that the people have the same amount of wealth.
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