Moving to another city alone

[punisa]

Well, might as well ask you scurvy reds for opinion :lol:
Would you be willing / or did you ever move to a distant city alone?
How do you blend in when you come to a city where you don't know anyone?

I asked one person as to where we would be a good place to meet some new people ans she told me to go to church. I just gave her a Stalin laugh, paid my drink and went home.

[eyedrop]

It takes time to build up a network as big as the one you have in your hometown.

For meeting new people you got a few options.

1: Work or school
2: Joining a team sport, or a theater group or whatever
3: Neighbours
4: It can help if you live in a collective (which is very common here) as you can leach of the friends of those you live with.
5: Political organisations
6: Parties


It's usually easiest to befriend people at work/school or some free time activity where you regularly meet people without having any pressure of being friends.

[NecroCommie]

I moved 400km from my home city to the countryside. I found more than enough friends at the school, and even a new girlfriend from the only club in the village. I regret nothing.

[RHIZOMES]

"You know what's great about being in a Workers Party, you can go to any major city in the world and you have an instant social life" -- Sociology lecturer

[Raúl Duke]

Would you be willing / or did you ever move to a distant city alone?

I did this in a variety of ways many times. I moved to Miami, I knew almost no one there (although I moved with my father) and than I moved to Ft. Myers and I knew almost no one there (yet I had uni which provided me the setting to form some semblance of social life).

Afterward I plan to move to NYC, except in that case I do know some people there or nearby plus it's likely that I'll be in grad school (2-3 more years plus university and I'm done; I surely don't want a Ph.D/spending many years in life in academia) while there.

[Angry Young Man]

I just gave her a Stalin laugh,

What, blood dripping from your chops and everything?

Anyway, I'da thought most people would move to a city abroad because they feel like its culture is better suited to them. Where are you from and where did you move to?

[Black Sheep]

"You know what's great about being in a Workers Party, you can go to any major city in the world and you have an instant social life" -- Sociology lecturer
Hah, totally true.
In fact i know people who joined just to make friends. :rolleyes: