social clubs

[gusl]

I think a serious social problem for recently-arrived adults in large cities is making new friends.

One solution would be simply to have clubs in which people do things together. One any given evening, people from each club would be in 3 or 4 places. If you go to any of these places, it's likely that you will run into the same people. This way, you get a large circle of acquaintances, just like you would in a small town (my college experience). If you go somewhere else, it's as if you "went out of town for a night".

While some clubs could be a simple "people club", others could help you filter the kinds of people by age, music taste, belief-system, or (of course) favorite type of activity.

Comments

[altamira16.livejournal.com]

In the US, meetin.org tends to be useful for that type of thing. There are also all sorts of smaller communities going on. Denver was especially good at this type of thing. There were many different niche communities, and there was the hometown feel of getting to know all the people within a particular community, be it the local poets, musicians, comedians, etc.