To wonder how on earth people are seeing friends every week

My oldest and closest friends live in another country so I see them, on average, once a year and we stay in touch through WhatsApp etc. My closest friends here, I see maybe once every 6-8 weeks.

I have young children and I work full time so family time is my priority on weekends.

My best friend lives a couple of streets over and we have kids the same age so I see her at least twice a week.
My other friends I see maybe once every other month

I work 12 hour shifts day and night rotation. They bugger my life up but I have more days off in a month so more chance to meet friends. I usually meet once a fortnight with my best friend usually for a lunch, but txt and/or talk most days. Others I speak to once a week, but can txt anytime. My kids friends are mostly my work colleagues with kids the same age, we do play dates if shifts and weather allows, maybe 1 every 3-4 months average. My other close friend lives an hour away, works shifts we see each other 1-2 months but txt weekly x

I posted on here a few weeks back and people were aghast that I said I wanted to see my friends every week/fortnight or so. But I do - I like very close friendships where everyone knows about the current goings on with each other’s kids, jobs, families and so on, and I dislike both the “annual catch up” type and the “constantly checking in on WhatsApp/FB” type. But that means that I seek out friends who also like that approach. It’s self-selecting.

I have got lots of close friends but I think that is because I have been single for long periods of time. I don’t keep all my friendships separate to my kids.
So for example I met my friend and went shopping a few days ago and my 16 year old came with us. He has known her for years. They had a nice chat. My 2 teens know most of my friends.

I have various groups where we used to meet up and bring the kids (no baby sitter- single parent). Now we go to each others houses for dinner etc as no babysitter required.

I have a close friend who has fibromyalgia so we don’t physically meet up but we talk most days on Facebook messenger. Again, because I don’t have a partner to talk about life with these friendships are very important to me.
It is expensive though meeting various people for lunch etc. I try and do cheap meet ups most of the time.