Part I. Isolation
I live in a village with less than 100 people. Although we do have somewhat frequent public transportation (once every 30 minutes) it starts quite late and ends relatively early (last bus to my place is at 6:25 PM). It costs far to much to drive here (even getting the drivers license) and the bus has a major impact on friendships, work, education and almost all aspects of life.
Maintaining friendships has become near impossible for me. In order for me to meet up with my friends (who all live relatively close to one another) I must travel a little over 1 and a half hours to our usual meeting point, this means on average if I meet my friends one day I must spend around 3 hours just travelling to and fro and with the bus times being so restrictive often times when we do meet I can only join them for 1-2 hours before I have to leave to make it home on time and not get stranded. My friends often don't want to come visit me because they don't think it's fair for all of them to travel 3 hours to meet me in the middle of nowhere when I could instead meet all of them and at least get something to eat (a sentiment I completely agree with). Since moving here the most anyone besides my mother and I have visited in twice. It's now gotten to a point where my friends often don't invite me to activities because they know I won't be able to stay long and don't bother.