Disclaimer: I'm only speaking out of personal experience and observation here, I'm in no way qualified to give life advice. Nor do I imply that you need it. This is simply my thoughts on your situation, for better or worse. I realise some of what I say comes through as a little preachy, but feel free to ignore those parts. Hey, what do I know anyway?
Well... it's two things really:
1. My life is at "home". All my friends... the people I play music with, the people I'm comfortable around, and essentially... the people I grew up with. I had a weird childhood which started when I was around 14... but that's a different story all together.
This is something all people who move away from home experience at the beginning. The thing is though, if you go home all the time, you will never start to feel more at home where you live. When I first started studying, I used to go home every second weekend or so. Later on I went home more and more seldom, just as most of my friends started being there more and more seldom. I know people who have gone home every weekend for five years (mainly pampesians). And guess what? They are miserable here. They still don't feel like they live here, because they have very few contacts outside of school. And back home, most of their friends have either gotten families, or moved away, or started studying somewhere else. So they increasingly seldom see their friends either.
This is what you should be wary of. Everything changes. Unless all your friends back home are already settled in with jobs their going to work for the rest of their lives and significant others they intend to marry in a few years, chances are some/most of them will move somewhere else at one point or another. One of my best friends from Gymnasium (ages 16-19) did just that. He went home every weekend, without fail. He was always chastising other peopel for not coming home often enough. He didn't see why he needed to make an new friends, he already had all the friends he would veer need. He's now finishing up his degree, but he has very few friends where he studied. And back home, most of our old pals have moved away, or gotten families. So he lives at his parents, polishing his degree and playing computer games at 25.
Of course this isn't true for all groups. Some groups of friends stay rooted in the same place all their lives.
I'm not saying jump ship and abandon all your old buddies. But would it kill all your friendships at home if you were only home every second weekend? If you got used to where you live, rather than to where you don't?
2. My apartment is what we call "supported living" (rough translation) which entails that you get support with basic needs like getting groceries, making sure your house is clean and cooking but also (and this applies to me most) going out on your own initiative and creating a social circle from thin air.
I'm confused about how this is a reason for you going home every weekend. Your apartment helps with social things so you don't want to be there? Or am I reading it wrong?
I've never been one to easily make new contacts if people I know don't already know them. It's autism related and it can make 'making new friends' quite a bit harder if I'm not forced to spend time with them already. (see: In school)
I thought you already had. You know your neighbours who have a Wii. Why not watch a movie and chill with them? You have a nice flatmate. Why not hit the bars together (or farms or whatever you potsmoking lowlanders have). You know some people through your new school. why not try and go for a pizza or something with a few of them. does your school have any sort of tutoring program where you're all divided into groups. In that case, it might be easy to suggest to your tutor that you think going out with the group might be a fun idea.
Eventually I'll spend less time at my parents, but more importantly, this form of living is temporary. And that sort of makes it a little harder to get used to... you see... the supported living thing comes with the education (which I mentioned, isn't your regular educational facility) and once I finished that, we'll be looking at jobs and a more permanent form of living.
What a capital idea. Only when you have a full-time job, and assurances that you will be able to work there and remain at the same place for 10+ years will you stop travelling back to your home town every weekend. Even if you live at your current location for less than a year, you are still passing up opportunities to make new friends, and get to know new people. Everywhere you live will in some shape or form be temporary. That is no reason to put off living.
Thanks! I'm not really focused on it at the moment... but I'm driven enough to push through once my current, somewhat messy, situation ends.
Hopefulyl that will work out.