It doesn't help that we're mostly limited to single-family sprawl rather than density, limiting the ability to live in a walkable neighborhood with the third places where one can go to meet with current friends or make new ones - parks, cafés, bars, etc....
Once you get past the foreign hordes, out-of-control crime, and *gasp* Democrats, you'll find lots of "third places" to meet new folks to hang out with.
You gotta be around people if you want to meet people.
And in CA, for that to work the cities must be affordable - and that means that they have to allow for dense housing to built. We currently don't, and the NIMBYs don't want to allow it either.
(This problem is not unique to California, just happens to be where I live)
It doesn't help that we're mostly limited to single-family sprawl rather than density, limiting the ability to live in a walkable neighborhood with the third places where one can go to meet with current friends or make new ones - parks, cafés, bars, etc....
Move to a large city.
Once you get past the foreign hordes, out-of-control crime, and *gasp* Democrats, you'll find lots of "third places" to meet new folks to hang out with.
You gotta be around people if you want to meet people.
And in CA, for that to work the cities must be affordable - and that means that they have to allow for dense housing to built. We currently don't, and the NIMBYs don't want to allow it either.
(This problem is not unique to California, just happens to be where I live)