no one likes me in my town

[BeNimbleDenimRobin]

Just that really, I have lived in a smallish area all my life & was badly bullied in two different schools. I had friends in my late teens but don’t talk to any of them anymore as I had bad experiences and they cut me off or treated me badly. I’m far from a prude & I am rough round the edges But I must say: round here seem to be just criminals, drug users & just overall nasty people. Nobody seems to want to be my friend & I live quite a quiet life. I’m too traumatised to make any more friends & I only really know one other person who I would talk to. People who I know have moved on with their lives and have friends partners etc & have rejected my friend requests. What do I do? Feel so crap
feels like this entire town hates me and I want to move away

is moving at option?

Are you able to move? I would.

Go somewhere else and be fabulous.💃

Not voted. This doesn’t belong in AIBU people are bound to be awful, some always are on this board. Could you repost in Chat? or maybe Relationships?

How old are you? Can you move and start fresh somewhere else? I am not in contact with anybody from my teen years and school at all, I moved to a new city and have a whole new friend group after a childhood with barely any friends

Can you move, is it a real option. A start again opportunity.
Do you work, have hobbies, interests?
Do you have any family nearby?

Everyone can't know you, so does not hate you.

Are you able to move and make a fresh start?
re the nobody likes you part... it took me decades to work this out but finally I realised why people were "funny" towards me in my home village where I never had that problem further afield was likely down to my mother and how she was. She had probably offended the few who would have been pleasant to a newcomer and so she never had any real friends in over 40 years of living there. It was how she was but I'm convinced I was pre judged as her daughter and felt I got a lot of abuse from the other kids, I particularly remember I was always being called a snob. Who knows what they might have heard from their own parents? I don't think I was a snob but then again it was my mothers way for the first 45 years of my life, only then did I start to think about these things and work out it wasn't actually all my fault. Just something for you to mull over, it could be it's down to others pre judging you?

Yeah, I'm with the others - why don't you move? It doesn't sound like you have any real ties where you are. So why not start looking for a job in a new city? It's a bit of a leap. But it doesn't sound like you have anything to lose, but everything to gain.

If not, then maybe just start trying new hobbies and getting to meet new people. I'm not sure most people are still friends with people from school in later life.

@BeNimbleDenimRobin do come back! Maybe we can actually be of some use and sympathy is certainly available, even if we are of no use🌷