New in town: How do I meet people?

In My Humble Opinion
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The suggestions above are all very good.

I am not a club/church person, and prefer to meet people in a loose, social setting. I have always found that finding a new “hang out” works best.

Go to a local cafe at the same time every day and read a paper or work on your laptop, whatever. After a few days/weeks you start to see the same people and if you are like me, it is then a lot easier to say hello and eventually start a conversation.

Or - even if you don’t drink, find a bar and just stop by early on the way home from work and have a cola or coffee. Lots of people stop by bars on the way home from work for an hour or so before going home - and again, after a few days/weeks you start to see the same people and you become a regular and conversations begin.

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Hey, you! Welcome to Colorado – or, as we out here in Sterling (turn your back to the mountains, look straight east about 100 miles – I’m jumping up and down waving – yep, that’s me!) like to call it, Marilyn Musgrave’s Piece of Heaven!

Old Towne Square in F.C. is a happenin’ place, with all kinds of stuff going on all the time down there. My son met his bride at a restaurant in Old Towne (okay, it was a bar, but he was having a burger at the time.) And there are several non-Starbucks coffee shops downtown, each with its own clientele.

If you’re an NPR-type of guy, KUNC has its finger on the pulse of the community – they’re somewhere between 90.5 and 91.5 on the dial, depending on where in northern Colorado you are.