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nullcompany t1_j7phqn9 wrote

Ab asino lanam, a donkey has no wool. Friendships in NH are born in kindergarten and give way to time and entropy - never rebuilt. Friends, split into people who are dating, split into people who got married, split into people who had kids ... but we never rebuild after we divide.

Ask yourself this, if you were in downtown Boston, how would you find some friends your age? If that's already a challenge, you're going to pull your hair out doing it up here. If it's obvious how to do it in downtown Boston, then how logistically expensive would it be to start there and slowly work your way backwards?

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seen-in-the-skylight OP t1_j7pi1eo wrote

Very very good points. I know more or less how I’d make friends in downtown Boston - I’d look for groups, places where people hang out. I guess that’s the sort of stuff I’m asking about here: if people know of things like that. I was looking on meetups and found some cool stuff, but the pickings are of course slim.

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futureygoodness t1_j7pj2y4 wrote

This feels overly defeatist. We came here from NYC in 2020 and post-vaccine my wife and I have been able to make friends by joining groups in the community — she’s taking ukulele classes, I’ve started going to a local game store each week to play Magic: The Gathering.

This is definitely a low population, low density state, but there are things to do in the community. Just needs some initiative and a pro-social attitude.

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