There are certain good decisions that we sometimes make that we tend to not realize that just because it is a good decision doesn't mean that it won't have its own downside to it. This is currently the situation a friend of mine is going through, although if you ask me, I think the decision he took was well worth it.
I have this friend who used to live around here but worked somewhere a bit far away in town. He always complained about how much he spent every month on transportation, so this year, he decided to make the decision to move away from the environment where he had stayed for years to a place closer to work.
The place he moved to is definitely ten times an upgrade from where he was previously staying, and now he basically spends nothing on transportation to get to work because all he has to do is walk over to the bus stop and get on the company's bus that would then take him to work.
So it basically was the move for him, but the downside to it for him now is that he had moved to an area that is barely developed. There are a lot of unfinished houses around him, and the people he barely gets to talk to are his neighbors that he barely knows and rarely sees because everyone is locked up in their flats, minding their business.
He has been asking to come visit, and I want to, but I'm just not the type of guy that gets comfortable staying over for a day or two at someone else's place, which is clearly what this friend of mine wants. Because he gets bored being there all by himself and needs someone to talk to and hang out with.
It made me realize that although he now gets to save more money for himself by not having to spend on transportation anymore, his mental health might be taking a hit, and unless he gets used to it, he might slowly find himself not wanting to go home when he's done at work because there's nothing to go home to.
