It shouldn’t be so hard to live near your friends
Describe an ideal weekend in your life if you could walk to ten friends in under ten minutes?
Kat Vellos • We Should Get Together: The Secret to Cultivating Better Friendships
it becomes tougher to meet the three conditions that sociologists since the 1950s have considered crucial to making close friends: proximity; repeated, unplanned interactions; and a setting that encourages people to let their guard down and confide in each other, said Rebecca G. Adams, a professor of sociology and gerontology at the University of N... See more
Why Is It Hard to Make Friends Over 30? (Published 2012)
the simple act of spending time with new people can be an unnecessarily complex challenge.