So try and organise 'quick coffee' visits (so you can escape without embarrassment) or see multiple people at once, and create a list of those people that you will choose to keep as an active part of your life. This doesn't mean that you will abandon old friends and family, but you do need to find people that you relate to - because if you don't you will be quietly frustrated throughout every visit.

You also have the opportunity to make some new friends - just like you did when you moved to a new location in the past. Ask yourself, where will I find the types of people I like to mix with? Then do what you can to find these people - and make sure you can reach them quickly and easily by car or public transport. There are many cognitively diverse people in every location - they may not always be within your existing network of contacts. Ask the people you know if they know anyone else who has lived in your previous location.

3) Why did I move - for my own reasons or someone else's?

Look at the 'real' reasons for your move back to a past location - are they yours or someone else's? And is this a way of avoiding issues that you must deal with? If you are returning to take care of elderly relatives, are you doing it out of guilt - something you wish you had done or didn't do? Is it time to 'mend fences' and let people know more about you and what you want from life? If you feel you are being selfish travelling the world, ask yourself why?

Do you keep in touch whilst you are away? Some people who live close to their relatives and friends contact people less frequently than those who live thousands of kilometres away. Ask yourself what these relatives and friends want for you? If being away is the only way you can be happy, so be it. We all make choices in life...I find that they are easier to live with if you consciously know that they are YOUR choices and not someone else's or what you perceive to be the 'right thing to do.'