The reason you're being down-voted is because liberalism believes in a clean slate for human beings. Heritable genetic traits that provide advantages or disadvantages goes against this model.
I'm only 23 but I am very much the same as you. All my friends have gone a traditional route so finding new friends outside university is harder.
I've made a few friends from work but politics are starting to threaten 2 of these. I too live in a small town/suburb but never have tried living in a city so I will need to try that!
I think I am demisexual personally so I'd totally be your friend!
I found some friends by taking up brazilian jiu jitsu and that has proven really useful. Find a topic you truly love and I think friendships will sprout up.
I think family raising has more risks and possible value loss than friendships, especially with the divorce rates in the USA. Goals 1-2 are always top priority after Health, which is the most important!
I am 23 and I read a lot from Mr Money Mustache, Early Retirement Extreme, Frugal Hackers, and many others. I fully agree with you but I still save close to 60% of my income (no debt, own my own car/house and have $45k invested in 401k/roth ira/hsa/taxable account) and live extremely comfortable.
I will be able to "retire" by age 33+ but I don't plan on actually quitting work. I am naturally minimalistic and frugal, but I live a very comfortable life on $15-20k or less (past 2 years I've lived on $10k in midwest US).
I am mostly doing this to secure a buffer of time to buy freedom and start-up costs for a small product I am creating.
The concern for health insurance is a huge issue for early retirement, especially when you have a family. I'm an eternal bachelor so that won't be a huge issue for me, so I can't truly comment on it.
I think all your advice is early retirement aligned but with the caveat to buffer for health insurance. I think early retirement has become so popular because the vast majority of Americans don't save for retirement and over-consume (which is not good nor bad but subjective to each person's internal purpose).
I am not in Japan, but the East Coast of USA. I am 22, have no debts, own my car, make 65k and have close to 50k invested in the stock market. I save close to 60% of my income and actively invest it.
On paper, I should be great but I am struggling with this nihilistic attitude to life. I am in good shape, sleep well, drink only water, work on programming projects or other side businesses, play video games, read non-fiction and hang out with friends.
How do I snap out of it and find more meaning in life? I've felt this "content" depressed limbo state for the past 3 years.
My go to quote for how I feel in general is from Fight Club.
“We’re the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War’s a spiritual war… our Great Depression is our lives. We’ve all been raised on television to believe that one day we’d all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars. But we won’t. And we’re slowly learning that fact. And we’re very, very pissed off.”
I personally consider myself a libertarian / MinAnarchist (gov should only be courts, police, military) hybrid and I don't think there should be public welfare at all.
There will always be private welfare/charity. The government is one of the worst run charities.
For individuals such as myself and yourself, personal donation and charity will always be better to the end recipient than a government run charity (welfare).