One of the hardest things about moving into one of the fastest-growing cities in America is that although it’s incredibly easy to meet people because everyone else is looking for friends too, it’s much harder to turn those initial interactions into real and lasting friendships.
When you both have just moved to a place, you don’t have a community of people to invite the other person into, it’s hard to do things. You can with enough effort, but it can’t just be going out for coffee every couple of weeks. You need real activities to go and do.
Once you have a solid group of friends, it becomes so much easier to get to know people in a more meaningful way because you have something to invite them in to.
It took probably 6 months for me to really hit that point in Austin where I was finally starting to gain deeper friendships and community that I could invite others into, but now that I have it, I’m so grateful for it. Not only for myself but because I’m now able to be a better new friend to others.
It’s okay to just meet sometimes, but if you really want to get connected somewhere, you have to be able to build a community of people doing real things.