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Alexandra Jones

Friends are expensive so I’m ‘quiet quitting’ my social life. You should try it...

Alexandra Jones is quiet quitting her social life

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It’s hard to say what caused us all to socialise with such rabid ferocity this summer (pandemic-induced existential crisis? War-induced existential crisis?) but phew, I am pooped! And, given the cost-of-living hike, increasingly poor.

It’s not that I’m particularly popular — I have a handful of close friends and a smattering of wider acquaintances —but with the looming threat of an astronomical gas bill, even that tragic number is generating a few too many invites.

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