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I have the same problem. My old way of making friends was to show up at the bar regularly. I sing karaoke, and am addicted to feeding dollars to the jukebox when there isn't karaoke, so that was a good jumping-off point.
Since I don't have a "home bar" anymore, and don't feel like hanging out at one every night anyway, I've hit a wall.
I can tell you what doesn't work-- waiting for people to invite you places. I have this innate fear of inviting myself and therefore annoying everyone else (I worked with a girl like that, just assumed we wanted to hang out with her all the time...and we didn't.) Unfortunately, my coworkers (I think) took it as me not being interested.
I finally got some skates, so I'd like to try roller derby (I've been talking about it forever, but now I'm almost to the point where I can make this a reality.) There's a local camera club with open meetings I want to check out. Hopefully, this will help get me moving towards FriendVille,
I'm rambling a bit, aren't I? Basically, I don't have any room to give advice, since I'm in the same boat. But the things I DO want to try, I learned about from reading one of the local free event papers-- a rundown of entertainment stuff happening in the area; and skulking around the library bulletin boards.
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