> The challenge is not being near just anyone but rather being near a group of people with significant overlap in values and interests Maybe I'm exceptionally

> The challenge is not being near just anyone but rather being near a group of people with significant overlap in values and interests Maybe I'm exceptionally flexible, but I don't see those as being a requirement for finding friends. Growing up on the island with an interest for programming there was like two other people on the island who even knew what programming was, and were into computers. So most of my friends of that time I didn't really have anything in common with except we lived on this island with our parents, and we liked the same types of jokes. But generally our world-view was very different even back then, didn't seem to have stopped us.