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Why do you find it hard to meet like-minded people? Have you tried meetup.com? The only solution to not having a group of people you like is to meet more people. You're certainly not lacking for options. It sounds like you just need a better searching method.

I like having reasonable suggestions - at the very least it's a good idea to consider these things if I haven't tried them before.

I don't know why you seem to think it would be easy to find like-minded people, though. Inferential distance?

That seems to be hard by default, unless you're living in an area with a high density of like-minded people.

Anyway, I am familiar with meetup.com. I have some meetups I could potentially participate in, though they seem to be mostly for people who want to socialize rather than specific groups for things I am interested in... (read more)

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I do some meetup groups available nearby (though I'd have to commute for quite a bit). There's isn't much choice of what kind of people I can meet via meetup.com. The base rate for people I would consider like-minded is really low, so trying to meet people randomly (or by applying a simple filter) seems like a low-value strategy. [...] That doesn't automatically imply it is optimal or even reasonable for me to try and maximize the amount of people I meet short-term. [...] I think everyone has options. That doesn't mean that the options are viable. I do also think it's a good idea to go over the possible strategies I might be using. I'm not seeing any options that I'm willing to use immediately. So I think the best thing I can do right now is simply to think more about this - and see if I can find a reasonable way around the objections to have to using these options, or if I can find new options I like better.

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