In HCOL cities in the USA, it can be tough to get a setup like this.

One may suggest to move cities, but my community is my friends in the city I live in. One may suggest getting new friends in a new city, but that's a tough and long process - friendships can take years to build, especially if I'm isolated and working from home.

I could move further out of the city, but now I'm commuting 1hr+ one-way to see my friends every day. The very commute that WFH was trying to get rid of.

That’s the joy of working remotely. But do you really hang out with your friends everyday? Serious question, I’m older and most of my friends are married with families (as am I). If we see each other, it’s well planned out and on the weekend.

Even when I was single, I had friends all across the Atlanta metro area and we still ended up having to drive an hour to see each other.

But it’s been a long time since I was single, and I will admit in my single days, work and my social life was intermixed so heavily that we would have all (male and female) ended up in HR today.