When we first moved out here, I started trying to find out how and where my kids (all young adults) could go to meet other folks their own age. Everywhere I went I struck up conversations with the young adults that I was interacting with. The cute waitresses at the local restaurants, the young receptionist at the veterinarian’s office, and the bank tellers.
If the person looked to be about the same age as my kids, I was talking with them, asking them “where can people your age who have just moved into the area go to meet other new people?”
I was hoping they would tell me something like “all the kids hang out a Joe’s SpeakEasy” or something along those lines. Or “they go to the bowling alley” or “the skating rink” or “the movie theater.”
But no, all I got was “this place is dead, there just ISN’T anyplace for them to go to meet people!” I was hoping that maybe someone from the many places I went to would have at least ONE suggestion, but no, they all think the place is dry. Or even it would have been nice (Where is that Southern Hospitality I’ve heard so much about?) if some of them had said something along the lines of “my group of friends is going to the movies this weekend, why don’t you have your son meet us there and we can meet up?”
When I ask them what they do for entertainment they say that they just “drive around with friends” and go to their friends houses.
I joined the local Newcomer’s group, hoping that they might have a “young adult” section of the club, but they don’t cater to that group at all, so that was a bust.