Where is your favorite place to meet new people?
By AnnaB7
@AnnaB7 (756)
United States
July 17, 2008 11:39am CST
Or to find new friends?
I have stayed home so long I don't even know where to meet new people, and I am thinking I really need to start getting out more.
Do you think it is easier to live in a city or a small town, and what influences your choice of the best place to live, is it because it is easier to maintain friendships or just easier to make friends in one place or the other?
2 responses
@paid2write (5201)
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17 Jul 08
I used to live in a London, a capital city with a population of over seven million and I made a lot of really nice friends. Most people think it's an unfriendly place because nobody ever smiles at or greets a stranger, but I met so many people from all around the world it was lovely getting to know some of them. Londoners generally are very kind and caring people within their own communities.
I now live in a town where people are more polite and helpful to strangers but they don't seem to want to make new friends outside their own circle, and it is not so easy for me to find friends here.
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@AnnaB7 (756)
• United States
17 Jul 08
That is how I feel like it is harder to really make friends in a smaller town, maybe it is because they have all known each other the majority of their lives and have to just get to know you or something like that,
I have met several people from London back years ago when I was a waitress and all of those I met from there were very kind and very friendly.
The only real reason I can think of that I would not like London is because in all the pictures I have seen it looks like it would be a wet and cold place. sort of like Ohio, I would not want to live there either for the same reason. LOL
I am sure I am probably mistaken, but I really do not like to be wet or cold.
anyway,thanks for your response.
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@paid2write (5201)
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17 Jul 08
It can get very hot in London and then it's really horrible because of the pollution, and in winter it can get very cold. It does not rain as much as some people think but it can rain anytime of the year.
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@Zmugzy (773)
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17 Jul 08
I think in smaller towns it's easier to meet people and make friends. In a big city you just get lost and stay lost. Or people are just to busy to stop and say hello. If you want to know what loneliness really feels like, go and live in a big city. The only problem with living in a small town is, if you meet someone you don't like, you can't get rid of them!
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@AnnaB7 (756)
• United States
17 Jul 08
Do you live in a large city? I have thought that a big city would make it a little easier to meet people. Because in small towns or at least in the one I live in everyone you meet seems to have their own group, and it is hard to be in any group unless you have something that that group likes or desires a lot.
I have seen many fair weather friends in this area, people who only want to be your friend if they have something to gain, but if you really need help they are no where to be found at all.
I think where I live is a very lonely place for those who do not belong to a group of some kind.
Maybe lots of places are lonely just because no one seems to think someone else would really like to hear the voice of another person.
