Five Crazy Places to Meet New People If You are Single
by If you are single, you know that finding other single, available people to meet and even date can often times be as difficult as making a million dollars. Here are a few ideas of places you may not at first think about when looking to meet other available singles.
If you are single, you know that finding other single, available people to meet and even date can often times be as difficult as making a million dollars. Here are a few ideas of places you may not at first think about when looking to meet other available singles.
Move to a Small Town
You may think that in order to meet lots of single people, you have to live in a big city to increase the number of potential mates. Wrong. You can actually meet more people faster if you life in a smaller town of less than 15,000 people. And, the more rural the area, the faster you will meet other singles in town. The beauty of a small town is that people are generally more friendly because they can be. If you’re not confronted with millions of people each day, you can afford to be nice and friendly with the few that you do. In a small town, news about other singles travels fast and soon you’ll have neighbors introducing you to others in town they know who would like to meet and date you.
Join a Small Church
Again, less is more when it comes to being single. Even if you live in a big city, find a small church with 100 or less members. You’ll find that the married people take you under their wings and will happily take on the challenge of introducing you to every single person they know, are related to or have meet in the past 10 years. You may think logically that by joining a mega church of 10,000 members you’d have better odds, but with so many people it could take years to meet more than a few.
Take up a Non-Traditional Hobby
If you are female, pick up a new hobby that is dominated by men. If you’d like target shooting or archery, fishing or hiking or kayaking, these activities and enjoyed by many men and then you’ll meet them. If you are a man, look at hobbies that are more traditionally female such as rose gardening, scrapbooking or line dancing. You’ll have fun picking up new information and new skills along with meeting lots of women who will enjoy your company.
Go to College
No matter what your age, get back into a university and you’ll find students of all ages and plenty of them are single. You can set up study groups with interesting classmates and if you find some whose company you truly enjoy, you can see if dating is an option. Either way, you’ll be furthering yourself by pursing a degree or a graduate degree which will help your career and keep your brain functioning at a high level.
Find a Support Group
If you are new in town, or have a medical condition, a pending divorce or you’re a single parent, find a support group in your area to meet with others who are in a similar situation. You’ll meet new people and they will know others to introduce you to. At a minimum, you’ll have new friends to socialize with and talk with about common problems, so it’s still a good venue for anyone feeling lonely or unconnected.
It is difficult to be single when you feel that you are surrounded by others who are happily married or at least happy they are finding people to date. You could be looking in the wrong places, or maybe you’ve just not discovered some of the more crazy places where you could be meeting other singles for friendship or for dating.
For more information, the following articles may be of interest:
Keys for Online Dating Success: How to Meet People Through an Online Dating Agency
The Law of Attraction is Not a Secret: Part 1 — What is it?
How Divorced Women Can Bounce Back and Beat the Odds
Woman Seeking Divorce: A Guide to Finding and Hiring a Divorce Attorney Without Going Crazy
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Post CommentRuby Hawk
On June 11, 2008 at 10:37 pm
You have some very good ideas. I would add go to gyms, swimming pools. laundramats,Farmers Markets, Craft Shows. Nobody should ever be alone except by choice.
ns_para
On September 13, 2008 at 10:08 pm
I have to disagree completely with the small town tip. My company relocated me to a small town, and as a single professional male I have had lots of opportunity to meet women here, but most are already married, many have drug and alcohol problems, and the remaining single women are not suitable for dating.
Plus, despite being a part of the community, participating in fall fairs, etc., I have yet to have a nice old lady introduce me to her niece. The reason? Most of the women leave here for the big city the moment they graduate high school!
Anyways, coming from personal experience, don’t move to a small town if you’re single.
scott
On December 24, 2008 at 4:48 am
Yeah the whole small town thing total crap. I grew up in a major city have lived in a tiny town for over a year now, and while I have met lots of people. The quality of people seems to drop heavily. As was stated there is the everyone’s on drugs thing. Which by the way when I say drugs I dont mean smoking a joint every now and then. The Sad truth of the matter is that if I wanted to settle for what was right in front of me at any given moment I could be cleaning up in the city. Narrowing options dose not make it easier to meet the girl of your dreams. It simply lowers the bar forcing you to settle. School is a great option and so are odd hobbies although I am not quite ready to jump into rose gardening. I guess what has worked for me the best is not being the “city” jerk off who is mean to everyone he meets. I try and give as many people as I can the time of day and I can pretty quickly make up my mind if the girl in front of me is someone I want to sleep with, be with, or get the hell away from.
mh
On January 10, 2009 at 9:15 pm
Maybe the small town thing works if your idea of a small town is 15,000 people. But my small town only has about 2,000 people – other towns within an hour are similar in size. I gotta agree with ns_para. I run into plenty of opportunities to meet men! But the majority are already taken and/or unacceptable by my standards. I did luck out and find 1 guy that is single and acceptable. But his career goals will not let him settle down with me.
Oh well. I hope your advice is right and that I will find a good guy around here. Because I’m just not into the big city thing.
DM
On January 23, 2009 at 4:48 pm
-I 100% AGREE WITH THE ANTI-SMALL TOWN PERSPECTIVES.I WAS BORN AND RAISED IN A BIG CITY AND A YEAR AGO MOVED TO A SMALL TOWN AND OPENED MY OWN BUSINESS. IF IT WEREN’T FOR MY SHOP I WOULD ALREADY BE OUT OF HERE. I’M NOT INTO ORGANIZED RELIGION AND ALTHOUGH I KEEP BEING “INVITED” TO CHURCH–MY KINDA GUY ISN’T GOING TO BE THERE. YEP, GOOD ONES HAVE LEFT OR MARRIED & THE BAD ONES–ARE REALLY BAD. I’VE ALWAYS ENJOYED MY INDEPENDENCE BUT THIS IS RIDICULOUS! I’D LIKE TO HAVE A LITTLE FUN & COMPANIONSHIP WHILE I’M STILL YOUNG-
Me
On August 21, 2010 at 9:21 pm
thank you. this was the most enlightened article on the subject i have ever read.