Finding new friends

[mrs.b]

I just moved out of state ( moved from Columbus, OH to San Antonio, TX) and having an issue meeting new friends. I've had the friends back home longer than I can remember and don't even remember how we met. I've joined a few meetup groups for things that I'm interested in, but in the last 2 months but they haven't had any activities and while the people I work with are enjoyable to work with, they're not whom I would consider going out for drinks with etc. Where do adults meet new friends at???

I've met most of my friends doing...things I do. One of my newest and closest friends is a homeschool mom I met through one of the HS groups I take my son to jump in on field trips; she's one of the only ones that doesn't look down her nose at me for being "one of those working moms" (sorry, we have a nasty habit of wanting to eat once in a while), so we got along on the trips, then just starting doing stuff on weekends, getting our families together and discovered our husbands have a lot in common too, and our kids play nicely. Other friends came from work, but you said that's not an outlet for you. Most of the rest of my friends were met just doing stuff I like to do. I met one of them stuck in an airport, and while it's not something I enjoyed (the stuck in an airport part), we were both headed to the same place and had plenty of time to chat.

Take a painting class, or a martial arts class, or join a running club, or volunteer somewhere, or...anything that interests you. If it interests you, you'll immediately have something in common with the other people there to have something to start up conversations to find other common interests. Rather than focusing on finding a place to find friends, think of something you'd like to spend your time doing, and go do it. Friends will follow.