Meetup.com. Find something you know or want to know, and join a group about it. Show up regularly. You'll get to know the others that show up regularly and b

Meetup.com. Find something you know or want to know, and join a group about it. Show up regularly. You'll get to know the others that show up regularly and being to bond with them. I joined a Meetup group for learning Japanese and went a half dozen times, and then just stopped going. I still consider going back, and I feel a little bad for abandoning them... Even after like a year or 2 now. (I also want to continue learning Japanese, so that's some of the pull, but I feel bad about the people there, too.) If you don't have a skill you want to learn or practice, there are groups for things like board games, too.