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The amount of people your age is only going down with time. (lemmy.ohaa.xyz)
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Also: The people don't change. The pool of people your age that you could meet doesn't change, it only gets smaller.

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[–] fishpen0@lemmy.world 9 points 21 hours ago

The people within your “age bubble” definitely continues to grow until you are roughly in your mid 40s. But then it really does just drop off hard and fast after that. There’s things you can do that also cause it to swing wildly.

Move to Boston - it’s the largest concentration of 20 year olds in the world per capita. Nobody exists over the age of 30 until you are 5 suburbs out of town. So if you are under 30 you just artificially spiked your age bubble up to probably your lifetime peak. If you are over 30 you just prematurely fell off a people my age cliff.

Move to Florida - dead opposite problem.