To be fair they lived 5ft away, it may as well have been one big apartment.
Still. Who does that.
People with close friends, i guess.
My friends definitively don’t want me around. lol

My friends definitively don’t want me around. lol

My friends

🤔

As a person with close friends, there’s just no time in the morning. Even if we lived close by, like, no. I don’t even have time to eat breakfast in the morning those days when I drop the kids at school.

Yeah, my best friend lives just around the corner and we have this kind of friendship. We work together and both work from home, so we often work from each other’s houses.

We both have wives and kids but our families are close enough that we often just turn up at each other’s houses without asking or organising anything. We eat dinner together about half the time.

But we pretty much never have breakfast together - mornings are far too busy for that.

each other’s houses.

Must be nice though.

Really depends on your situation. I used to leave the house at 10 to avoid the rush in both directions. This was great until I had kids. With kids it’s an absolute no go.

But most of the friends in Friends don’t have kids.

Really depends on your situation.

I think this is key. Most people don’t have a situation where they both don’t have kids and don’t need to be at work early in the morning.

I have a job where I don’t need to be in very early or at all. But them darn kids gotta get to school or I’m breaking the law. 😅

Older gens I’d say. My mother had afriend who always came in without knockin and just…vibed. Like they suddenly materialised in kitchen and talked while eating or materialised near table and drank coffee.

My partner’s mother had someone like that too.

Meanwhile I am having a meltdown if someone tries the door before knocking (they are always locked anyway)

Was your mom always goofing things up and was her friend’s name Ethel?
Before the internet was widespread, it was extremely common for people to actually hang out in person. The show is set in an era where the internet was something you went out of your way to connect to, not something that was already integrated into every single device you used.
It’s believable if you imagine yourselves living their lives. But the lie for me was that I could have the same thing when I grew older. That is impossible for me, and a lot of people.
Not breakfast, but I used to eat dinner with my neighbors allllll the time. They even used my fridge to keep extra food in when preparing for parties and stuff.
That sounds wonderful. I want neighbors like that. I guess I can’t sit around waiting for neighbors like that, eh. I need to go out and make neighbors like that.
Lol plot twist, it was 4 overtly large apartments right next to each other.
Ross doesn’t live in the same building. Later on he moves into the building across the road from them though.