nikelz t1_iwa5pec wrote on November 14, 2022 at 2:45 AM

Reply to comment by edwardsamson in Friend for my wife by abitdaft1776

More people like you exist, we just seem to congregate on the internet instead of wherever 35 year old childless progressives are supposed to hangout in the UV.

laika404 t1_iwbt30l wrote on November 14, 2022 at 2:06 PM

Yeah every now and then I see evidence of our group, just wish I knew where to meet others in this group offline...

Severe_Net_3732 t1_iwsn3ou wrote on November 18, 2022 at 1:17 AM

There’s an active Upper Valley Young Professionals group for this.

somedudevt t1_iwhf1s4 wrote on November 15, 2022 at 5:42 PM

Yup… this is the answer. Pick the hobby you enjoy (something that’s not watching Netflix alone) find a forum/social media group about it. Post the rando doing xyz on x day if anyone is interested post… vet anyone who replies by looking at their post history to make sure they are not a Nazi or conspiracy theory nut. Meet up and do the activity. Repeat the steps till you have a small group of people with similar interests.

There are tons of groups online… going into winter people coop up which is not great, find something outside that’s interesting and then get into that community, whether it’s lake ice skating, xc skiing, snowmobiling, ice fishing, etc.

Most of the people I spend time with regularly are people i either met through common interest forums, or reconnected with in those forum, or are friends of people from those forums.