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I have this problem and in my case it started before I moved to United States. I went to same school when I was a kid until age of 12. Then I went to a private high school in a different town where studied for 5 years and it felt like I made a lot of friends there. After that I went to college in a different country and studied there for 6 years where I also made a ton of friends. Then in my mid twenties I moved to United States and initially it felt like I had made a lot of friends during my first few years in the States but pretty much nobody from my college or high school years were in touch with me by then. After I got married, it felt like I lost most of my friends that I had made. Being married was very lonely and I got divorced and moved to another state. I worked at different places and had normal relationships with people but after I switch jobs I noticed that nobody stays in touch. I'm getting closer to my 40s and I am thinking a lot about this problem that apparently I have but I can't point out what am I doing wrong. I am not rude to anyone and don't have bad habits or other negative things that are obvious to me but I do wonder what is the cause of this.


My hunch is that all your moving doesn't help. I'm a similar age and it feels impossible to make new friends. Virtually all my current inner circle are friends from ~20 years from High School and College.

It's much easier to lose friends then gain them. So as people marry, have kids, move, keeping the close allyship becomes more difficult.

The kinds of activities most US 30+ adults are open to are relatively small and easily prone to be disrupted. For example, I might invite someone to watch a basketball game, but it will take a fairly long time for that kind of contact to blossom into a strong friendship. Moving just resets everything.

Also consider I would never call up a coworker I might have known for years and invite to something more personal, like a ski vacation. If I was in college, I wouldn't think twice about doing that with someone I didn't even know that well.


Having lived here most of my life as an extrovert I can safely say, don’t count on any American friends. All of the closest friends I’ve made have been European, Asian , Hispanic or on the spectrum. Every friend is just a networking opportunity here. Even worse, Americans are uncultured and boring.


did you test Google Keep?


I use it all the time - it's great but mostly for lists such as TODO, etc. - it is very convenient for syncing across devices where I login with my G. account. My notes are usually longer articles, often with images, tables, diagrams, code snippets, etc.


instead of increasing taxes on middle class the govt could tax every phone call just 1 cent and eradicate this problem while pulling in revenue.


more like mismanages, based on performance of their investments.


Actually it's amazing they don't lose even more money seeing how poorly designed their whole vision of the future is.


its more like entertainment 720 or whatever it was called in parks and recreation


They're fluUush with caAash #TheWoOorst


less than 20 years ago and that's very recent in war terms. the same (failed) excuse wont be used again because its always better to fabricate something new thats not related to the last one which turned out to be not true.


Let's be honest, they pivoted from WMD to the much larger and vaguer umbrella of "terrorist" or "terrorist supporter". This has allowed the USA and its allies to indiscriminately kill millions since the Iraq invasion (and rake in billions in weapons deals).

It's always funny when we ignore the mass murderer in the room and instead focus on China's quite measured response to crime.


for a second I thought its /r/jokes


Snowden is being prosecuted for being first to reveal things that everyone knows now


fun times ahead


yeah? Zuckerberg promised? suuure


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