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It depends absolutely and positively on where you are coming from, state, city, suburb or rural and what place or places you want meeting people in New York be compared to
I've been reading around and someone made the point that due to the pandemic, people are less willing to meet strangers and that for someone new to the city, it would be difficult to make friends, given the restrictions on bars/restaurants/masks. Is there any merit to this? Up until I heard this I was fully committed to moving, but am now having second thoughts.
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Originally Posted by randomperson2
As of today, it's harder. I would expect that to change pretty rapidly over the course of the summer. ~30% of the adult population has already gotten at least one dose of the vaccine, and basically every adult is eligible for it now. On a warm day you can feel the party atmosphere in the younger neighborhoods starting to charge up.
I second what Randomperson2 said. Right now people are still scared to come out but u will see changes come summer. I am seeing a lot of socializing still occurring online and some have been vocal about meeting in person soon. Some are doing a mixture. The trsins are getting back to where they used to be but nobody stsnding up like sardines yet. Everywhere I go in the City things are popping.
You will meet many like minded people. But they won’t be friends as in a classic definition of a friend. Level of friendship that’s normal in other countries, is foreign in America. Even more so with introduction of social media and demise of privacy.
Thank you! I say the same thing. Most friends here are not "friends" abroad. Real friendship here is pretty rare in my experience.
"There is a revolving door aspect to NYC and almost any other city that attracts a lot of transplants, and that's maybe the worst part of it though some people do stay."
Yeah, but it's nothing like, e.g., DC.
True friends are rare anywhere. And it gets harder to meet people as you get older. But 32 is still relatively young for NYC. A lot of professionals get married around that time.
In New York meeting new people in common public areas is not common.
Yet meeting people in a class, a place of worship, business networking events, a cultural event, gyms, clubs under non-pandemic conditions there is a wide diversity of places and of all ethnicities and lifestyles to meet people.
So if you want to meet people who have a big toe fetish or do ballroom dancing or like to dress up as babies
or are a bible study group
It's all here
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