My father see his college and high schools friends in teashops almost everyday. They just sit, sometimes eat. All come and go. No long term planning. Just phone calls.
If not: I don’t think it’s a realistic goal, at least in a typical Western country, for a person with a young family and a full time job to manage to meet up with friends, who are not co-workers, almost every day.
It all depends on the type of circle. Even within the same city, given the same depth of relationships, distance and the location matter. In a busy asian city, being as little as 15kms apart could result in meeting much less often. In a US small town with excellent roads, little traffic and everyone having cars, the friction is much lesser.
Time for friends is sacrificed first when you need to prioritize work/wife/children etc.
