Cities also make it much easier for your friends to actually show up. When I lived in a large city all my friends where either a walk or a short subway ride fro

Cities also make it much easier for your friends to actually show up. When I lived in a large city all my friends where either a walk or a short subway ride from a central meeting point. Now when we've all traded that in for larger living rooms we're all spread to the winds and we'd have to collectively spend hours in a car to all get together. Trading an apartment in the city for a larger living room has meant that I see much less of my friends than I used to.