{"id":12788,"date":"2019-03-08T08:17:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-08T13:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=12788"},"modified":"2019-03-08T08:36:47","modified_gmt":"2019-03-08T13:36:47","slug":"always-connected-with-thousands-of-friends-yet-feeling-all-alone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=12788","title":{"rendered":"Always Connected With Thousands Of \u2018Friends\u2019 \u2014 Yet Feeling All Alone"},"content":{"rendered":"

(By Sharon Jayson for Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n

AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 Connor Wilton moved here for the music scene. The 24-year-old singer-guitarist \u201cknew zero people in Austin\u201d and felt pretty lonely at first.<\/p>\n

While this capital city is one of the nation\u2019s buzziest places and ranks at the top of many \u201cbest\u201d lists, Wilton wasn\u2019t feeling it. He lived near the University of Texas at Austin but wasn\u2019t a student; he said walking through \u201cthe social megaplex that\u2019s UT-Austin\u201d was intimidating, with its almost 52,000 students all seemingly having fun.\u00a0 Continue reading article here…<\/a><\/p>\n

Kaiser Health News is a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation.<\/p>\n

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