Agreed. Between work and non-work, I’m literally spending over 12 hours per day in my living room. No matter what some people would have us believe, this can’t be healthy.
I've made efforts to go out after work, spend time with friends, and get back into my hobbies.
But none of these are enough to make up for the 8 hours of social interaction I was getting each weekday by being in the office.
Also as a single person, working in an office environment downtown felt like I had way more opportunity. Opportunity to move up in the company, opportunity to meet a girlfriend, etc.
I have a couple single friends in your position who were getting dangerously lonely. They got a cat in one case dog in the other and it hasn’t fixed anything but it’s given them a reason to get outside and a bit more of something alive in their life
