social Siberia???
It came to me in a dream. I know that sounds absolutely ridiculous, but it did, I promise you. One moment I was a regular twelve-year-old, working out which one of Take That I would marry,* praying that I would make it on to the netball A team because the B team would mean another year in social Siberia with my monobrow and the tartan socks my mother insisted I wore to school; the next, I was convinced I was dying of AIDS.

I would like to know what does "social Siberia" here mean ? Does it mean "without any social life"? Thanks.

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social Siberia???
It came to me in a dream. I know that sounds absolutely ridiculous, but it did, I promise you. One moment I was a regular twelve-year-old, working out which one of Take That I would marry,* praying that I would make it on to the netball A team because the B team would mean another year in social Siberia with my monobrow and the tartan socks my mother insisted I wore to school; the next, I was convinced I was dying of AIDS.

I would like to know what does "social Siberia" here mean ? Does it mean "without any social life"? Thanks.

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It's a metaphor.  It means a place of social isolation and unpopularity. Siberia has the reputation of somewhere you are sent for the purposes of punishment and isolation.  12-year-old girls want to be popular with their classmates, and for this girl, popularity meant being in the A team, not the B team.

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to me it sounds more like "socialist" so, from the times when Siberia/Russia was part of the USSR (union of soviet socialist  republics)

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