Another reason American friendships are fleeting; America is a transient country.

[Mercury]

In the main website, it is said that, in America, friendships are superficial and fleeting, mostly a facade, and that personalities are toxic, resulting in even friends growing tired of seeing each other. But there is one thing sure to wipe out a friendship as surely as a mile high tsunami wiping out a child's sandcastle on the beach; a long distance move.

America today is an extremely transient country with no roots. Americans have cut off all their former roots and replaced them with wings and jet engines. Americans today live in the sky! And no U.S. state is any less transient than the other. Nothing rips a friendship to pieces like a long-distance move as it's a guarantee they will never see each other again and will never be able to meet up or get together for the rest of their lives, as if the long distance moving friend has already died. More often than not, the distance is completely insurmountable. Even if they do see each other again, it very often takes up to sixty (60) years, sometimes longer, to nail down a successful get-together through all that distance. It's no wonder friends that live long distance apart often only even say hello to each other every 15 to 25 years. Sometimes it's 40 or even 50 years. Most never even talk for the remainder of their lives, and the next time one of them hears about the other is when the other has died of old age 65 years after moving. They say they'll be back to visit, but only because they don't want those whom they are leaving behind to actually come to terms that it will take up to 60 years to nail down a meet up or get together through the enormous distance.

But more often than not, friendships end even before a long-distance move as many Americans about to move long distance put up walls and social barricades and they push everyone out of their lives whom they are leaving behind. There are people who were the friendliest people you could have met, and a month before they move long distance, those same people are a jail term and legal chaos just waiting to happen. They know the friendship is over. They know the get-togethers are over. They know the distance is insurmountable. They know it will take 60 years or longer to get together again. So they cut everyone out whom they are leaving behind because, as they say, "it hurts less" when those left behind get the idea that the long distance moving person is not a true friend and that the friendship was, exactly as Winston describes it in the comparison chart, a facade. Those kinds of people of course, they don't have a going away party, most of those kinds of people don't even tell their friends they are moving away and won't be back for many a decade. They just simply cut everyone out of their lives, they terminate all friendships before the moving week, they delete and often even block those on Facebook whom they are leaving behind, they become jail and ten minutes of shame on the local news waiting to happen, and when the moving day comes, they're out of there, and they never glance back.