vector_1979

I split up with my girlfriend about a couple of months ago. We had been going out for three years. We met when I was at university. Now I work at a engineering company where there are few women (1:20 ratio). When there is a woman she is more than likely to be involved with someone, and the one's that aren't taken, is for a very good reason!!! I do miss being in the university environment because it was very easy to meet new people.

My question is, where do women hang out? I not really one of those people who likes meeting women in bars and clubs. I'd like to get to know woman as a friend first, before taking the plunge. What do all the single ladies do? Where do they go?

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Coppertop

Call me weird but I've always found that you can meet some nice women in the local 24 hour grocery store in the wee hours of the morning (midnight - 3 AMish). If you're up at those hours, anyway.

skier

you're just a few months out of university? I think you could still get away with going up to meet girls in the common rooms, or study rooms.

Otherwise, just walk around and make eye contact with every girl that interests you, and if she reciprocates it turn around and introduce yourself.

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Nazggul

It's best if you simply do the things in life that you enjoy. Along the way you'll meet people with similar interests and eventually you will hit it off with someone. Take a night class, a second or third language, take a cooking class, join a running club or some other sport that interests you. Just be social.

Here's the key though, don't look to hard for it, women can sense that will avoid you. Plan9 made a great post way back when on this topic.

Getting Girls 101

Good luck...

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Willravel

What kind of woman are you looking for specifically? Don't go to a bar unless you want a bar fly. Don't go to the opera if you don't want an intellectual. Don't go to sports events if you don't want a jock. Don't go to the library or book store if you don't want a quiet woman. Don't go to the mall if you don't want a 12 year old who dresses like a prosetute. You get the idea.

vector_1979

Couple of years ago I left! And it is 170 miles away!!

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Suave

*goes to the mall*

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ultra_agent9

Call me old school but it always seems to happen...when you least expect it...

/just be out and about

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NotMVH

I find that it is more about, Where do I feel comfortable approaching a woman? and less Where can I find a woman? Thankfully attractive women can be found everywhere. Except a woman's rights rally :P

Elusive Dreamer

i think the bar and club atmosphere is really not the best enviornment for someone that's looking for more than something for that night or week...if youre lucky, month. ha ha... that's just my expierence with those kinds of people.
i'd say a bookstore, or coffee shop... not like a starbucks but one where you can sit and enjoy the moment. those places may sound cliche but i think it draws a much more diverse crowd as compared with your typical bar scene...(and no offense to the people that enjoy that sort of thing). i work at a salon personally, and there's TONS of women here. men do actually come here, get their hair cut and walk out with a date at the end of the hour. i don't know if they plan that sort of thing, having already scoped out the situation... but it isn't a rare occurance. it's mostly the girls that work here that get asked out, but at times it's customers that wind up with the invite! i have recently met my man in class... so school has been my match maker along with simple luck of having the same class with him. however that doesn't look like an option for you. but you could join a gym or maybe a yoga, or kick boxing class... there's a lot of women that enjoy that on a daily basis.
that's about all the advice i could offer good luck!!!

ShaniFaye

hey I hang out in the library and bookstores and Im far from quiet!!

I 2nd the ideas of doing something you enjoy, thats a great way to find someone and know that you have a common interest right off the bat

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World's King

They're all at my house.


Why? Do you want one? I'll see what I can send your way.

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Blackthorn

I've got a friend who swears by the hair care products aisle at Wal-mart. His claim is that if you hang around there and wait patiently for a woman you'd like to meet to show up you can simply ask her about the product she's looking at and why she likes it and bingo you're in. He has had several dates this way and one woman lasted more than a few dates. I guess to your point if you're in a dry spell hey try it out and see how it works.

Personally I've never tried it because I'm missing a goodly amount of the necessary HAIR to make this act work! That and I'm not quite that ballsy.

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Glory's Sun

dude.. you know you lie. Half of them are at my house.







ok seriously, girls are everywhere. So if you're going to places/activities that you enjoy.. you'll see girls unless you enjoy watching gay guys mud wrestling or something then it might be a little different.

Suave

Or unless you thouroughly enjoy playing online computer games, battle bots, or LARPing. Then the ladies can be tougher to find. I guess online gaming doesn't really count though, as you don't exactly go "out" to do it.

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*Nikki*

My advice to you is NOT TO FOLLOW PLAN 9's advice.

Aside from that my man is also an Engineer and works in an enviroment that has few females. That is why he met me on the internet