You and your home friends have been through it all. From sleepover parties and movie nights to drinking for the first time behind your parents backs, you’ve always done everything together. They’ve seen you at your worst and stuck with you through your awkward stage when you had braces and were still testing out the concept of training bras. You’ve celebrated some of your biggest milestones together: Sweet 16 parties, 18^th Birthdays, high school graduation and even some 21^st birthdays.

Whether you’ve been friends for four years or 12 years, it seemed almost impossible to part with your friends from home when you all went off to different colleges. While you may be hundreds of miles apart, the distance is anything but a challenge for your friendship. Here are just a few of the best things about long distance friendships:

1. Always being able to ask them for advice

Whether you're in a fight with your roommate or have found a new interest in a boy, you can always count on your hometown friends to respond as soon as you shoot them that "SOS need advice" text. After years of getting to know all of your personal quirks, they'll be able to offer up the perfect solution just for you. They'll also have an unbiased opinion on the situation if they don't know the person you're talking about, as opposed to your school friends who may have a different perspective.

2. Having the best FaceTime sessions and phone calls

They may not happen that often, but when they do they are long and unexpectedly refreshing. It's always comforting to touch base with old friends and keep them updated with what's new in your life.

3. Keeping up the hometown Gossip

Because who else would you talk to about which high school sweethearts broke up or who tried out a new hair color that just doesn't work. If it's on Facebook or Instagram, you're can't help but hit your girls up for a quick gossip session.

4. Reliving your teenage lives

It's not a true trip home without stopping by your high school with your girls to see what's changed or visiting your favorite foodie spot that you used to eat at every weekend. It's the small things like this that you realize you miss most at college. Plus, what's being home without partaking in a little house party action like the good old days?

5. Your group chat is always alive and thriving

Snapchats new group feature was one of the best things that could've happen for my hometown friend group. Now, in just a single click, I can keep my girls updated with a live snap feed (A note to my friends - sorry for being a snapchat maniac) instead of having to scroll through and individually click each of them. What a game changer!

6. Inside jokes that never get old

It's the worst when you accidentally slip an old inside jokes into conversation with your college friends and they just stare at you blankly. Meanwhile, you can easily throw out a joke you haven't used in years and your hometown friends will know exactly what you mean.

7. The best reunions

All your friends are finally all reunited for holiday breaks and you're ready to get right back at it. You all take on the town revisiting all your old spots (and by spots I mean Brother Jimmy's for all you Fairfield county gals who know what I'm talking about) and ending the night with a sleepover that consists of devouring high-end snacks from your parents' pantry that you can't afford at school.

8. Your family is their family

Your friends are always over your house. It's to the point where your mom expects them to just be there for dinner and has already bought enough food for a Thanksgiving style meal. Your mom treats your friends like her adopted daughters and she will always be there for them if they need advice or comfort because that's just how close you all are.

9. Visiting each other at school

These weekends are without a doubt some of the best weekends of college. No questions asked.

10. Whenever you see them, it's as though no time has passed at all

No matter how long you've been apart, you know you'll always stay best friends even if you don't talk for weeks at a time. They will always have your back and will never leave you. These girls will definitely be the bridesmaids in your wedding. You're basically stuck with them for life so you better get used to 'em.