Pefering Uni mates to those at home

it has been said in this thread how uni mates are for life, but for me, it doesn't seem possible... and i'm sure my scenario is pretty similar for most! i am in a friendship group at uni and there are 6 of us...1 from edinburgh, 1 from lemington spa, 2 from london, 1 from newcastle and myself, from the north west of england! now i have every intention moving after uni, as do my uni friends. when there are that many people in the one friendship group, and so many different places throughout the uk, how is it possible to retain such strong friendships? i don't think it is. it will be weekends visiting each other, and not very often at that. and then once you hit 30, there will be the 'big occasions' when you see each other...marriages, first borns, milestone birthdays... your friends at home can always be there, or at least for a significant period of time at christmas for example. now as said in previous message, my uni friends are the same as my home friends, but in different ways. i have come to the conclusion that for 3/4 years of my life i will be extremely close to my uni friends and will love with them etc. but after that, logistically it will not be possible to maintain such strong
friendships!

I was always told the friendships for life are the ones you make in the second year, and it seems to be going that way, my two best friends this year already seem to know me better than the 8 people i lived with last year. I am still mates with my old housemates but they are no where near as good friends as the ones i havethis year. In the first year people are thrust into friendships groups because of living together, by the end of the first year you can tell which of those friends you wish to keep and which you don't if any, in the second year you have time to make new friends or build on the ones you already have.