Anecdotal, but I had this problem for many years, I stuck to my existing (small) social circle which included no single women, and that social circle got increa

Anecdotal, but I had this problem for many years, I stuck to my existing (small) social circle which included no single women, and that social circle got increasingly small over the years as people moved away, settled down, etc. I moved somewhere where I didn't know anyone at all, and after a few months of just spending every waking moment alone, I just started going to the same place where people are and doing the same thing every day. I think all it takes is going somewhere where people are and being friendly, somewhere that doesn't include existing friends and acquaintances, just sticking with it and not really caring who thinks what about you. Anywhere but a bar would be my criteria, and ideally not a commercial establishment. For me it was the local swimming pool in my community.