Almost every person I feel closeness with in the world lives in a different city at the moment. Why do we do this to ourselves? The next couple decades needs a capital city everyone moves to and doesn't leave!! The internet is not an option.

recently just read this 🥲 annehelen.substack.com/p/youd-be-happ…

As someone who spent most of her childhood and young adulthood living in different countries… this has been, like, my whole life 🙈 I don’t know any different, don’t even know what it feels like to live close to family.

i didn’t feel the need to have friends near me until i moved to the US 2 years ago...and then i realized that’s a thing i took for granted for too long. sigh. it’s much harder to make new friends now and everything is so dang far apart from each other here and so are my friends

Related: Anne Helen Petersen’s writing about our generation is always sooooo spot on. Dang

Oh this was the first time i came across her writing, gonna find out more👀

She wrote a book I’m dying to read about remote work / home office called “out of office” & in 2019 had this piece in buzzfeed about “the burnout generation”: buzzfeednews.com/amphtml/annehe…

oooh out of office sounds intriguing! (i’m target audience 💀) Thanks so much for sharing! Saved this burnout piece for read

appreciate you saying that! <3 haha that’s true i guess there’re only so many friends we can hold on to (also some come and go)