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I think, part of it is that while many have moved away (and some returned) the parents all tended to stay around so there was somewhere to gravitate to at Christmas (and Hogmanay). With parents finally dying off I wonder how much we'll see of some of them..
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My parents moved several hundred miles during my first year at uni, then moved again a couple of years after i'd finished, several hundred miles again. Since then they've moved probably half a dozen times. Including one or two international moves.
Don't think either of them will settle down until they get put in a box.
45 now and still good friends with 2 people since the age of 12, one I would class as my best friend even though we have lived 5000km apart over the last 7 years. Slowly removing ex-school friends from my FB, I will have the odd contact with one or two as some are spread out around the world but generally have no interest in seeing them and I am sure its the same with them.
In life you move on, people come and go, I think that's a good thing as it means its up to you to make effort to keep the good ones and you get lots of chances to meet more good people.
I shall consider deleting this upbeat thread later as it probably goes against all that is STW .
I haven't seen any of my old school mates from more or less the day I left my last school.
not bothered by it really
I only see one friend from my schooldays of 45 years ago. My Mrs! ( we had a 32 year interlude though)
There's a group of 4 of us (Lister is one of them) who have been close since we were 11 - for the last 29 years! Despite living at opposite ends of the country we still make time for a meet up where we will argue/harange/mock and generally abuse each other, two or three times a year. Every 5 years we try and do an MTB Road trip somewhere.