Moved to Philly about a year ago without knowing anyone and haven’t made close friends yet. How did you make friends here?

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This was me two years ago and we decided to have a baby and now I have a bunch of mom friends

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Hi All, I may be a couple weeks late but I’m also looking for some new friends. Obviously we can’t meet up now but after the self- isolation, I’m down to get a drink, coffee, bowling, etc!

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Hey Slalom, DM me!

Bowing league!

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We got 2 dogs and ended up meeting a lot of dog parents :) I also met people through work and introduced myself to my neighbors. We have people over every weekend to relax, eat dinner, etc.

Some other great ways are to join a league, pick an activity and find an interest group. That’s how I met people in Philadelphia the first time I moved here - learned to road bike, signed up for groups, and then joined a kickball team.

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You into whiskey? I could use another whiskey friend.

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Any beer fans?

Is the channel related to Philadelphia?

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College. I'm not originally from Philly but it feels like everyone here has some prior connection to the city - being from the area or PA in general, school etc. So there are a lot of preformed friend groups. I'd suggest trying to find activities that interest you and try to befriend someone with an already established group

I realized this a while ago, it just hasn’t felt right to join in an already established group.

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I joined a Crossfit gym, a bocce team and went to a couple of Meetups. It's been 4 years and I'm extremely happy.

I started a meme account and random acquaintances met up with me

That's...kind of a serious answer because all my close friends from my old firm McBee left and I had no friends amymore

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I’m even later. Just moved here in Feb. Would love to join if we pull this off once things start opening again. 32F here.

I’d be glad to run point/ setup a better forum to communicate where’d we like to meetup after the quarantine

We need an interfirm slack or teams channel or something lol.

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