how many WPers here like living in small towns?

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My loneliness is so devastating it's like a physical pain. It's unrelenting and unmanageable. Definitely not planted by the media.

And I'm not even completely alone. I have a boyfriend I see at least once a week and I talk to my sister on the phone every day. But I am alone most of the time and it's terrible.

comparable to my little county which only has 59k people in it.

i hope you don't mind this question, but if you and BF got married and cohabitated, would that help your loneliness?

I think it definitely would. We're not there yet, the cohabitating, and definitely not the getting married. I think he's just more independent that I am. Also I have severe chronic fatigue so even if he was more available it's hard for me to feel up to getting out. But I think that if we lived together that would be less of an issue because we would just be around the house together.

I work a full time job, so I am around people a lot. In fact, I look forward to solitude. It is a luxury not to have people calling all the time wanting something. But too much of anything is too much, even solitude.

I understand. And I appreciate you saying the last part.

That your place on the other side of the Argyle forest?
That sounds EXACTLY like my place, except being carved out of the centre of a state forest I cannot see any neighbours without sending a drone up 400 feet.

I hated being woken at sparrow fart by garbage trucks and trams when I was a city dweller, but I do miss the variety of entertainment and shopping (despite shopping being problematic for me. Who else is paralysed with indecision when presented with variety?.. Viva ALDI !)
After I popped a brain aneurysm an occupational therapist took me down to the hospital pharmacy and had me shop for shampoo. Who the hell doesn't buy it from a supermarket?
She later discussed my shopping inadequacy with my partner, who said "You took him SHOPPING?....He couldn't do that BEFORE the brain damage!"



Sounds like Baldivis
I ran an archery park there.
Within a year of the boss selling up the place turned from rural farmland into a nightmare suburbia with big houses shoehorned into tiny blocks.
They didn't even bother designing their estates around any of the existing massive trees.

When I was employed I worked lots of overtime when allowed because I was depressed about being lonely. The latter two of my three jobs were retail & I did custodial stuff while the stores were open. My first was a dish-washer. I lived with my parents but me & mom fought a lot & I didn't feel very close with dad. I spent most of my time in my room on computer. I tried various ways to meet people & get a relationship offline but things didn't really work out.