[spondylosaurus]

Does buying a home and letting people live in it automatically created shared dinners or coffee chats though? I can't say I've ever done that with my landlord. And yeah, my landlord doesn't usually live with me, but I've also had a fair share of roommate arrangements where we were friendly but not exactly friends. Certainly not eating meals together.

[fragmede]

In the broader picture, where most adults are lonely and can't make friends, being negative and focusing on the friendships lost thru community housing seems a bit myopic. If the multitudes of relationships gained aren't worth the ones that are burnt - and I am not minimalizing those that are being burnt - it truely sucks to lose friends - but if, over the years, you haven't managed to gain more friends than you have lost, then something is wrong.

I can't say what, because I don't know you and your circumstances, nor your morals, or lack thereof, but it's Saturday night where I am, and I'm going to go enjoy it with friends that I've been avoiding, in favor of doom scrolling.