u/LouBoy123

I hear this a lot but dont know that many people in relationships, do you know a decent amount of people in relationships in which one of the people is settling or "dating down" whether they are married or boyfriend/girlfriend?

If you can provide year, location & guest amount estimation as well that would be great

First, I want to say I LOVE reading memoirs. Quite enjoy them I really do. But I was thinking today about the ones that I read and how detailed they have been based on memory of the person. I can't help but think, wow a lot of these details could have been stretched out a lot or could have been told in a way that is very deceiving towards the truth, whether it was intentional or not. On top of that, we don't know if the person at hand is truly writing their own memoir. It just makes me wonder, if someone is recounting stories without having journaled them down at or near the time of the experience, how much trust could we put into some of these incidents? Idk was just thinking about it today and unsure if others think about that often as well.

First, I want to say I LOVE reading memoirs. Quite enjoy them I really do. But I was thinking today about the ones that I read and how detailed they have been based on memory of the person. I can't help but think, wow a lot of these details could have been stretched out a lot or could have been told in a way that is very deceiving towards the truth, whether it was intentional or not. On top of that, we don't know if the person at hand is truly writing their own memoir. It just makes me wonder, if someone is recounting stories without having journaled them down at or near the time of the experience, how much trust could we put into some of these incidents? Idk was just thinking about it today and unsure if others think about that often as well.

How many of your neighbors are you friends with? I am talking the ones that live up to two miles from you? Are you strangers, acquaintances, friends, besties?

Since its the 250th Anniversary of America's independence, are people going all out this year to celebrate? I assume this will be one of the biggest 4th of July's of our lives given its 4th of July number 250. Pretty cool, how will you celebrate?

I want to know for you specifically, what is your favorite and most challenging part about living in STL? For me 33-37, pro is there is always something to do on the weekends, personal con is lack of public transit

I am a single male age 31. I live in a good city, about half the size of my home city and similiar cost of living. I have a great network of friends and people in my life here. I as well have a decent network of friends and people in my hometown. My family lives there, parents getting older but in good shape, siblings have children growing up there too. I am there pretty often and enjoy the time everytime. I do deeply worry about giving up everything here to go there and do a 50 percent restart, I worry about trying to make new friends in my 30s even though I believe I can just difficult since its the settling down stage. Which is why it feels perfect timing now. I have more friends in relationships/starting families than single friends. It seems like this year everyone I am friends with are having children, in a way it feels like people are going to start settling down and will have less and less time to do social activites. Which makes me think that things will be very different by this time next year, which means maybe its time to get out and move home and start the rest of my life, maybe by a home. I also work remote, so I have the freedom to work anywhere thankfully. I have a plan to sort of get in the swing of things and meet as many people as possible when/if I do make the move. Has anyone been in a similiar situation?