Rant about social interaction

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This is just a quick rant because I'm thinking about it right now.

I left college in 2002 and since then I have made no new friends. The last time I spoke to someone my age was at least 2 years ago. Perhaps more.

I live in a small village on the moor and I have no transport. I catch the bus twice a week to do voluntary work, but everyone at work is much older than me and I don't feel any kind of friendship with them.

The last friends I had from college have moved away to uni.
Most of the time I just read and feel ok, but sometimes I feel very, very alone.

Well, thats the rant. Don't feel you need to reply with something constructive or reply at all. Advice is easy to give but hard to follow.

Meh

This is the problem I have...

City - Need to live there to have friends. Much easier to find people who like/tolerate my oddness and who I have something in common with. However, horribly stressful, expensive, and too far from family.

Country - Relaxing, go cycling and go on walks, see nature, spend time with family. However, feel very lonely and can't make any friends.

So, yes, I do see what you mean, it's tough living in a little village where you can't make any friends. The only solution I have is to save up and hop on a train sorry

heh, well, I could stretch to a train ticket....but where to go?

LONDON

Its amazing.

Strange, I found London a very lonely, dirty and impersonal place.

perhaps I just didn't know it well enough.

I lived there for two years. It is dirty, that is true, although there are beautiful places if you go looking for them. When I lived in south london, I used to walk on wimbledon common, when I moved north I would walk up to alexandra palace or go to primrose hill.

By impersonal I guess you mean that everyone avoids eye contact in the street and on the tube. This is what people always complain about, people say it's unfriendly. I actually really like it. I couldn't stand to live somewhere where everyone knew who I was, I don't like smiling at random people in the street.

I never felt lonely because I could get on a bus and go see music very cheaply whenever I felt like it, and I would bump into people I knew.