How do I meet more with my long-distance friends?
I seem to move around the midwest every 2 years. I’ve made quite a few friends here and there, but a lot of them are about 2 or 3 hours away. We all have to do the grown up thing and work, but most of us get weekends off. I have a fairly fuel efficient car, but it’s still a lot to go back and forth to spend a little over a day at someone’s place to hang out. We only really hang out maybe once every 2 months or so, and I’d like to do that more often.
Are there any options that would maybe alleviate things like cost and/or time? We talked about maybe meeting up at a middle point, but I was wondering if anyone had any ideas or suggestions that might help out.
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Where is the middle point? The Midwest is a pretty big (and subjective) area.
Depending on where you are in the Midwest, If you have a little bit of extra cash, you may want to look into buying a place on lake that’s a midway point. That would give you a place to go to on a regular basis, and an investment for the future. It doesn’t have to be any place big or fancy. I know people who did this in college, and I’‘ve always been quite envious of them.
Hmmn… 2 or 3 hrs (to me anyhow) isn’t any big deal, that’s what I was used to traveling each weekend to see friends when I lived that close.
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you could always get a hybrid or something, or better still shove nitrous on yor car, thatll cut your journey time down lol.
I agree with @hungryhungryhortence, two to three hours isn’t bad at all. I moved around a lot too and now my friends and family don’t even live in the same country as me and those that do are at least six hours away. I visit during long holidays or weekends, that way I’m not just spending a day with them; it’s less frequent but you get more time to do stuff. The only other think I can think of you already suggested, meeting at a half-way point. However, if you’re strapped for cash and/or time you can use Skype or something to video chat with them. Lame? Maybe. But I use it to talk to my family and I know some of my friends will get together and watch the same movie at the same time while on Skype for a kind of movie night.
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