Prior to Thursday’s City Conversation – Go East, Young Vancouverite – here is the installment of the Vancouver Foundation’s survey that takes a closer look at 25 to 34-year-olds. It showed that this age group feels more isolated and alone in the community.
To read this week’s mini-report, click here. The full report is here.
I wonder how many of those who feel “isolated and alone” are single.
Maybe it has something to do with younger people putting off marriage and families?
I am 34 married with a toddler and soon another baby. I never feel isolated and alone (except sometimes at work) but I always feel exhausted! You have to pay up somehow I guess…
This was my thought too Jim. I made most of my most enduring friendships in my late 20s and early 30s–when my kids were young. Nowadays folks are waiting a whole lot longer to start their families–if they have kids at all–and I think kids, like puppies, make it easier to connect with relative strangers…
Free of the worries and burdens of adulthood? What exactly do these people think 25 to 34 year olds are if not adults? I am 31 and my friends and I have jobs, partners, babies, and houses. I feel lucky to have a group of good friends, but with everyone busy being adults it IS hard to make new ones.
Whoever wrote this needs a dose of reality.
Alexis
Yes yes yes I belong to the same group and you are right.