Just having access to friends, community, cafes, a social life of sorts, is enough for me to be emotionally good - and keeps all the vice/bad influences at a sa

Just having access to friends, community, cafes, a social life of sorts, is enough for me to be emotionally good - and keeps all the vice/bad influences at a safe distance. I'd also like to note that there is the possibility of LTR/marriage without cohabitating. It's just costly, but from where I'm sitting that looks like the far better approach if one can afford it. It's not that uncommon to hear about such arrangements among celebrities who obviously have the necessary dough. Before the pandemic started I was pretty isolated for a couple years solo developing an off-grid desert property, which turned into another ~2 years of absolute solitude from the COVID lock-downs. Without access to the public in the form of cafes/bars or even the public library, it became noticeably mentally and emotionally problematic. While it's nice to know what that extreme looks like and how it negatively affects me, I have no interest in repeating the experience. For me, just having the ability to hack from a cafe at least several times a month and have some conversations with even random strangers provides the majority of the human interaction I require. Beyond that it's diminishing returns land.