You may have heard of third places before, but in case it’s new to you, they’re essentially community spaces where you can chill & socialize…Like here, I suppose! But typically they refer to in-person community spaces.
Does your area of the world still have a number of these, or are they in the decline? Do you know if your in-person communities are trying to establish or renovate theirs to help people connect or reconnect with one another?
Cities have a problem in that people can only have a limited number of friends before they can’t keep up. In rural areas you can keep up with more people so you make friends, in urban areas you are likely to have enough friends and thus not interested in making more.
There are many advantages to city life. But for a new comer making friends is not one. You have to search out places to make friends. If you are not careful your friends list can become filled with people just like you, instead of the diverse group a rural area would force on you. (Of course rural areas attract less diversity in the first place. However diversity is multi dimensional so you can be diverse in some, but exclude others, make sure you have religious and non religious friends; Democrats and Republicans…)