“Life is not orderly. No matter how we try to make it so, right in the middle of it lose a leg, fall in love, drop a jar of applesauce.” - Natalie Goldberg
I feel you. I could GTG with NOLA people but that is a 3-3.5 hour drive. It was the same when I was in WI. After I moved all the Chicago people came crawling out of the woodwork. (Still over an hour away.)