While I agree that 'requires motivation' is a thing, and likely more of an issue than others, I must add that location may many times be a bigger thing for many

While I agree that 'requires motivation' is a thing, and likely more of an issue than others, I must add that location may many times be a bigger thing for many people / places. Being close to a hip city and having no trouble traveling, I did find motivation (for actually going, doing the scheduling, etc) to be a thing - and there are sometimes many layers to that thing. As I encouraged others to do meetup dot com and find groups to hang with - I found that people do indeed have to muster up the motivation - but also location can be an challenge / obstacle. I also think meetup has changed with less options, partially for pandemic but also they went pay to play for listing groups I think? Looking forward to more decentralized group listings and virtual water coolers in the future, maybe web rings coming back to help with that. Also been planning to open more real world 'third place' options hopefully - scouting locations and sketching ideas anyhow.