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MarkInAustin is offline MarkInAustin Post #1  October 8,2009, 6:09pm
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Part of my problem with dating is that I’m over 40 and not at all interested in bars. So, I usually go months between even running into a woman that I am attracted to. I’ve asked on here before about walking up to women in places like the grocery store, and it was pretty clear from the responses I got, it wasn’t a good idea.

So, women, where do you go when you are looking to meet a good man? What kinds of places do you go to or activities do you do where you are receptive to being approached?
 
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Such a good question ... the answer is ... I have no clue. I've asked myself ... where could you go to meet someone nice and I don't have any answers.

Bars ... seem like a player and drunk hangout to me. The gym is nice, but mostly married people. The grocery store ... does anyone really meet anyone in the grocery store? Church ... well I'm not all that religious. Spiritual maybe but not religious. Work ... well we all know the hazards of dating someone from work.

So I do not know, Mark in Austin. I am kind of hoping you could clear me up on that. Just where would I go to meet you? Assuming of course that you are a nice guy ... ; )
 
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I have decided to join some meetup.com groups. I had been going to a political group I found through meetup and there were a few men, but none I was interested in. So now I'm trying some that I hope will attract men (and people in general) who are passionate about the same things as me - wine and food, intellectual discussion (through book groups), atheist/agnostic groups. I am going to limit my participation to groups in the largest metro area, not in the suburbs. Much better participation in the city.
 
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nightling wrote :
Such a good question ... the answer is ... I have no clue. I've asked myself ... where could you go to meet someone nice and I don't have any answers.

Bars ... seem like a player and drunk hangout to me. The gym is nice, but mostly married people. The grocery store ... does anyone really meet anyone in the grocery store? Church ... well I'm not all that religious. Spiritual maybe but not religious. Work ... well we all know the hazards of dating someone from work.

So I do not know, Mark in Austin. I am kind of hoping you could clear me up on that. Just where would I go to meet you? Assuming of course that you are a nice guy ... ; )
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I have decided to join some meetup.com groups. I had been going to a political group I found through meetup and there were a few men, but none I was interested in. So now I'm trying some that I hope will attract men (and people in general) who are passionate about the same things as me - wine and food, intellectual discussion (through book groups), atheist/agnostic groups. I am going to limit my participation to groups in the largest metro area, not in the suburbs. Much better participation in the city.
I looked into some groups on Meetup.com in my area. The ones that I interested me listed how many people attended and when they met. There would be only 3 or 4 people and they only met once a month and sometimes less so I decided that was not a good option (for me).
 
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I would think those would mostly be married too ... Sadly, I seem to have no trouble meeting married men who'd like to date. ;p~

I didn't mean to post twice either. ;p~
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Do you want to hit on random women, or do you want to meet people and make friends and possibly someone to be something more? If the latter, I think you have to look at clubs or activity groups where you can find people with common interests.

I have never seen anything happen in the gym or the grocery store or at church. I think these places are where married people imagine that all the hot action is.
 
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three_eyes wrote :
I have decided to join some meetup.com groups. I had been going to a political group I found through meetup and there were a few men, but none I was interested in. So now I'm trying some that I hope will attract men (and people in general) who are passionate about the same things as me - wine and food, intellectual discussion (through book groups), atheist/agnostic groups. I am going to limit my participation to groups in the largest metro area, not in the suburbs. Much better participation in the city.
I have looked at some meet-up groups around my area. There is one that just goes and tries out different places to eat around here. I thought that would be fun. Someone else was telling me about a ping-pong meet-up...that sounded really fun too!

I did a hike with one meet up group. My problem is that with hiking...I am really slow on the ups (and directionally challenged) so I really need a buddy.

It is tough being older and finding single people. All of my friends are married and all of their friends are married and all of their friends' friends are married...

But yeah, I think joining some sort of club, team or group is probably the best place to meet people.
 
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