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I try not to but there's these assholes at a car dealership who keep making me drive out there if i want to have an income

I physically can't fucking leave because I started renting a third floor apartment when I was still able to move pretty well with long covid, and now I'm way worse and there's no elevator lol. Those stairs will wipe me out for days so yeah, I haven't left in maybe a year or two now. Maintaining the ability to walk to the toilet is higher on my priority list

yall are making me sad. it's not your fault, you jsut are.

I had a while like that. Thought that if I wasn't working or consuming I had no reason to be outside. But I went on a walk once and quickly it became a daily activity. Now it seems incomprehensible to not leave the house for more than a day.

Same. Other than the store down the street and the gym, I very rarely ever leave the house. I have a work from home job, no social life, and I live in suburban hellscape with literally nothing interesting within a half hour drive. idk what do even do

I'm in hermit mode too, but not quite to such an extent

I generally only leave to go to work or buy groceries, or to take my dog out on a walk somewhere.

I had years in which I was very withdrawn and didnt interact with many people besides direct relatives. I kind of regret that. Mind you covid has played a roll in that.. but even without it I would have stayed inside a shit ton. These days I try to be more active in various ways.

I only go outside to pee.

I have a dog so I go outside daily

don't leave my house a ton anyway but depression got really bad like late summer of last year and I haven't left my house since then. I barely leave my room. Sort of recovering at this point, but still not at the point where I can leave yet.

With covid "leaving the house" pretty much means going to the store though so I'm not missing much. I used to take walks around my neighborhood but I live in the suburbs and I sort of hate being the older single male walking around the neighborhood with with all these little kids around and shit. Feels weird. Not to mention there are still people who live here from when I was a kid, like parents of peers my age. I see them looking at me and can just feel their disappointment in me, which of course also might be me projecting. Plus I also wear a mask when near other people and I increasingly get those angry suburban looks about it. I miss the days when I could just walk around the neighborhood in a mask and no one would give me a thought. I really need to move.

Leave it.

I only leave my home to go to uni, I found out today there's reconstruction in my neighborhood and 3 new stores I never saw before

Why?

I live with roommates so I try to get out often for a walk or bike ride just to get some space. I was definitely a shut in back when I had my own place though. One major change has been having easier access to trails, parks, and other places where cars are prohibited compared to before when I needed to cross heavily used roadways just to get to some public green space that was still exposed to vehicular noise pollution.

I have to leave for work and to get groceries but otherwise I basically never leave my apartment. Not going to change so long as COVID's still around.

This was my life before I became homeless (which I did by choice). I didn’t ride the bus until I was like 22. Had my first job at 25. Never dated anyone. Never went to a concert, any kind of social gathering (as an adult and by myself). I did not see a fucking movie in theaters by myself until I was 25. Shit left me fucking broken. Oh yeah I was homeschooled too, and even though it was still the state curriculum my parents were dumb and I got away with not doing anything. I actually think I might be intellectually disabled, or at least stunted from never fucking reading, and having to re-learn shit like What is a fucking noun? My dumbshit parents believed I was so bad at math that my mother had to hand-hold me, to the extent of actually taking the same community college math courses with me.

I might end up like that if I ever get a source of income that allows it. I'm forced by the system to go outside lol

I've definitely been stuck at home but not that stuck, that has to be shitty. I definitely spent a few sporadic months not leaving the house at all, and that was shitty enough.

You should try just doing a walk around your block or neighborhood, it'll feel cool as shit honestly, and take very little effort compared to going on a real trip

I kinda have to leave my abode most days, and I also have a social life and protests and meetings to attend.

Work, uni, home. It's too hot usually for anything else, and the cooled places are all commercial shit and I don't feel like buying a $9 coffee to sit on a shitty pleather couch "outside" my house when I can do it for free inside.

Moreso lately than I used to be. I still get out a bit because I live in a heavily extroverted society. But I'm perfectly content staying at home with just my wife and myself. It's kind of soothing to have a small group of people you can rely on while keeping to yourself.

If I didn't have a job I'd be right there with ya

I wish

I wish I could never leave my house.

Okay that's not true, I actually go for long ass walks a lot and often drive out to the country. I just wish I had a fucking remote job. Even a shitty one. I hate having to commute to a crappy warehouse every day to deal with people in person. I'd take Zoom calls in my underwear all day over an hour of that shit.

I go to the gym and to the grocery store and for random walks around the neighborhood.

But there is absolutely nowhere to go where I can socialize :(