I made some great friends in yoga class that I’m still friends with 7 years later!
My friend does early AM ocean swimming at pier 26 in Santa Monica and has made a bunch of friends that way.
If you skateboard or want to learn to, Girl Swrl is a cool group of women (mostly like 21–40ish) that do group skates and events around Santa Monica and Venice. It is very fun and I def recommend it!
There are lots of workshops related to plant education and natural dying around. Living Earth has a nature walk usually in Griffith Park monthly (as well as amazing music events), it’s a small group and I met cool people the time I went. Theodore Payne Foundation has workshops all the time about CA native plants. Pascal Baudar leads educational nature walks in small groups particularly about ethical foraging and edible invasive species in small groups. Tinctoria hosts plant dying workshops, as do other folks in LA.
My friend met her husband at a pottery studio (Bitter Root was the one) so maybe friends can be found there as well!
Your instinct to join a church is not a bad call honestly, I have made a bunch of friends since joining a synagogue a few years ago, and I don’t practice as religiously anymore but they’re still my friends.
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I moved to a new city during covid and times were tough here for a while, but this is what worked for me:
- befriending your coworkers (sometimes they’re really cool and will become your bff, most of them time they’re fine to occasionally hang w)
-being a regular at a coffee shop, bar, or concert/show venue (hit up the familiar faces and they’re likely to introduce you to their crew as well)
-bumble bff (kind of the worst but also fun- I met a few of my close friends on here who then introduced me to their friend groups. Mostly great interactions but be weary of some ppl trying to use it as a sly dating tool)
-get involved in the community! i host a book club and I play soccer on a local rec team. I’ve met so many people that I would’ve probably never encountered otherwise through Bookclub- don’t be afraid of multigenerational friendships! With soccer, I’ve met such a diverse crowd and it’s encouraged me to attempt to learn Spanish. It’s nice to be able to get a group of ppl together and play/practice when you all have a night free, or go and watch a game! If you’re sporty, you can also invite your new sporty pals out for runs, hikes, or other workout type activities!
Aug 20, 2024
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a coffee shop, running club, pottery class, karaoke night etc.
Whatever thing ur into. Go to places where you can do that thing regularly.
Eventally and usually pretty organically you will begin to make friends with people. People who you probably have alot in common with because you already have a shared interest. Yay!
I moved to a new state about a year ago knowing no one. I joined an improv class and now I have a whole network of people that I never expected to know. From that network you'll meet other people and so and so on.
Feb 3, 2025
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It gets harder to meet new people as you get older, especially if you aren’t in a super social work environment. The dating apps can sometimes hit but the amount of effort it takes can be exhausting, so I’d say have it as just one part of a collection of things you’re doing to make connections.
Finding a community of people who are also into the same creative endeavor has always gotten consistent results for me. I saw you’re into making zines, so participating in a zine fair could be fun. You could also check out the 8-Ball Community which has a publishing initiative — I think they‘re pretty welcoming if you’re looking to volunteer / get involved.
But yeah, showing up semi-regularly to the same places and becoming familiar is a key. I moved to Portland Oregon for a year back in 2009 and didn’t know a single person which was super hard. I ended up just hanging out at this parking lot with a bunch of food trucks and got to talking with some of the other kids that hung out and worked there. Eventually I got invited out to some of their parties and by the end of the year was part of their crew. Took a while tho!
Also, it tends to start with just one friend. And if that person accepts you, then everyone else they’re friends with will too. And then you can hang with the other people and keep branching out. It’s a practice, one that develops over a lifetime.
Mar 18, 2024
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it's fucking liberating
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sitting back on a couch with your cat on your tummy sitting like a little sphinx and you’re scratching their little cheeks and slow blinking at each other
Jan 22, 2024
App where you can enter in your own recipes or put in a webpage link and it cleans it up visually for you and you can increase or decrease servings per recipe and it automatically adjusts it all for you :)
Jul 29, 2024