Hi Sarah, If you search ” socialisation” you’ll find a full post on that. But the short answer is, it’s a non issue. We always kept busy. When you’re hiking up Everest or touring India by train it’s just the last thing on your mind. Nobody, ever, I don’t think, thought, gosh, I wish there were some same-age kids here for me to start building relationships with. It’s just not part of the lifestyle, in the same way that we adults were never looking to make friendships as we travelled. We were never in one place long enough. Sometimes we stuck around a few months and then friendships started to build. We were in London 10 months, that was long enough for us all to build life-long friendships with one particular family. We did a family Zoom quiz with them last night. Another time, we were in Chiang Mai for weeks and months, another time Hoi An, and then we did build friendships and connections. Some will endure. With families the whole family has to get along and we’ve been lucky, we’ve found that 3 times. But otherwise it’s just not a thing. It isn’t an issue, we don’t even think about it. We’re too busy doing us. The kids now have loads of other kids they talk to online, most they’ve met through gaming and online forums. There is one family in our “home” town that we connect with socially. We see them every few weeks or months. That’s plenty for us. This is only ” home” for now, we know that very soon we will be gone so putting down deep roots and social connections would only hold us back. Does that make sense? You meet and interact with people every day, loads of them. From shop keepers, to touts to the guy next to you on the bus. There’s usually somebody to chat to. We also tended to stay in places with communal areas, restaurants and bars. I hate being cooped up in a room, I like to see the world go by. So we’d just sit and watch and just be there. If you need kids, go to playgrounds, there’s usually loads. But there will never be friendships because you’ll be gone in a day or two. It’s the Buddhist way if you think about it.

Best of luck Quintis. We’re always here if you need to circle back for anything.