Why are there so many lonely people in big cities?
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Jim in a Nautilus COAT
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very impersonal lifestyle...only a few friends....Lived in Memphis for 10 years and did not like it... Love my little rural town in North Miss., population, 40,000...got lots of friends. Anywhere I go, see someone that i know. Been living here for 30 years and love it..very clean place, very friendly people, low crime, and good schools...
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Because the big cities condition people to be less friendly. Higher crime, competitive career centered lifestyles, traffic, all these day in and out contribute to the feeling that other people just plain suck. Less friendly people makes for fewer friendships.
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I live near the Washington, DC area and I have found you have to join things to meet people and make friends. It can be done but you have to be outgoing and make the effort.
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Too much hurry and distrust of those they don't know. In small towns most people know one another and life has a slower pace.
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Because there are so many people!
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As many people have said, where there are less people you seem to make more of an effort to get to know them. In big cities people are going about their daily lives in a far more inpersonal way
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A great question. The answer is that they are everywhere!
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In big cities people don't really know each other. So they fear and distrust each other. It's different in small villages because everyone knows each other. I'd like to retire one day in a small fishing village.
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