I miss having a local community. Advice?
So,for the past 2 years I have been spending summer at my S&B, winter at my snowbird town, and spring and fall camping and visiting people. I have close friends who I talk to on the phone long dist...
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Unfortunately, what you have described is just our way of life these days. Young families are busy raising kids and keeping employed. Retired folks are too busy enjoying retirement, traveling, and doing everything they couldn't do when they had kids at home because of either lack of time or money.
We live in a very transient society. You make friends one day, and they are gone the next. Unless you are tied to "community" like a work environment, (and really even at work), people come and go. Even you yourself come and go. You don't stay in one location either. You're constantly on the move.
To expect a "community" to become established in 3 or 4 different locations and remain in-tact while you remain transient is really never going to happen.
About the best any of us can do is develop a friend here or there and hope we bump into each other every "now and then." Unless you belong to a national organization, like the American Legion, VET's, Elks club, etc, and establish connections in different locations, and when you come back you have some sense of "permanency", you most likely will always feel like a transient vagabond with no roots anywhere.
You sound like you would do well to join some kind of national organization, or club that is nation wide. But, they might not share your adventure for RVing. So, it's a bitter-sweet suggestion.
Note: I'm a member of the American Legion. When traveling, there is always a welcome mat open when visiting another American Legion Post. It's nice to have a sense of belonging, the bigger "cause" is what molds us together. And there is always an instant friendship. So, is the connection with the "organization" more than the individual "in" the organization? Probably so. But it's the "organization" the binds us together and we never feel "alone."
We live in a very transient society. You make friends one day, and they are gone the next. Unless you are tied to "community" like a work environment, (and really even at work), people come and go. Even you yourself come and go. You don't stay in one location either. You're constantly on the move.
To expect a "community" to become established in 3 or 4 different locations and remain in-tact while you remain transient is really never going to happen.
About the best any of us can do is develop a friend here or there and hope we bump into each other every "now and then." Unless you belong to a national organization, like the American Legion, VET's, Elks club, etc, and establish connections in different locations, and when you come back you have some sense of "permanency", you most likely will always feel like a transient vagabond with no roots anywhere.
You sound like you would do well to join some kind of national organization, or club that is nation wide. But, they might not share your adventure for RVing. So, it's a bitter-sweet suggestion.
Note: I'm a member of the American Legion. When traveling, there is always a welcome mat open when visiting another American Legion Post. It's nice to have a sense of belonging, the bigger "cause" is what molds us together. And there is always an instant friendship. So, is the connection with the "organization" more than the individual "in" the organization? Probably so. But it's the "organization" the binds us together and we never feel "alone."
