08-05-2012, 09:39 AM
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Originally posted by Seeb
Thats why longer term residents are hesitant to make friends with newcomers you go though the effort to get to know someone then pooofff there gone...
Yes, I believe this is my experience too. This is also lends credence to my thought many years ago that it was hard to make friends with people who grew up on the island. After twenty two years on this island, for me, this phenomenon has passed. I went through this feeling of distancing myself 7-8 yrs ago when the amount of information being extracted from me by so many people I met those years was just overwhelming, and I began to pull back and spend a lot more time with my longer term friends. Now the ratio seems to have leveled out a lot. Some new, some old.