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Meeting people in Melbourne (when you're a nerd)
Mr Ray
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I've recently moved to Australia, initially for a year, to be with my family and look for work. I'd been living with friends in the UK prior to that, and found myself in a bit of a rut.
With the holiday period over, i've found myself kind of short of non-jobseeking things to do. The problem is that most of my usual activities back home involved either going out, or staying in with my buddies. Of course these buddies are now so very very far away.
So basically, i'm looking for a group of friends / places to meet people in and around Melbourne. My current hobbies are mostly pretty nerdy in nature as you might expect from someone posting here. I'm into gaming of all kinds (video, board, tabletop), and I go to the gym, but i've never found that to be a particularly good place to meet people. I'm also looking into power kiting; i've gotten as far as buying a trainer kite and taking a landboarding lesson (protip: landboarding HURTS. Do Kitesurfing.) and I'm going to be booking some more lessons once I know i've got a source of income sorted. Not sure if that's going to be a social hobby, mostly I just thought it sounded fun.
I've also been looking at meetup groups on meetups.com, but haven't had much luck there so far. I've got 2 meetups coming up which look promising (board games group and British expats), but the first one I went to turned out to be full of 9/11 truthers and conspiricy theorists of various types so... yeah.
If you need more specifics, I'm in the Western suburbs a short train journey from the city itself. I have access to my parent's car sometimes, but usually only in the evenings and at weekends. I'll get getting a car myself but again, I need to know I have a source of income to support it first.
One last thing, I'm recently recovering from social anxiety disorder, as much as you can ever recover from something like that. I'm ok with groups of people now (antidepressants, whee!), but I still despise clubs and anywhere with music playing louder than conversation level (pubs are fine). What I'm saying is, I'm still far too much of a pussy to just go into bars and clubs on my own if I don't know anybody there. Baby steps.
TLDR; I'm looking for nerdy things to do, and places to meet people around Melbourne, Australia. I suck with huge crowds of people and hate noise so no clubs / overly loud places.
With the holiday period over, i've found myself kind of short of non-jobseeking things to do. The problem is that most of my usual activities back home involved either going out, or staying in with my buddies. Of course these buddies are now so very very far away.
So basically, i'm looking for a group of friends / places to meet people in and around Melbourne. My current hobbies are mostly pretty nerdy in nature as you might expect from someone posting here. I'm into gaming of all kinds (video, board, tabletop), and I go to the gym, but i've never found that to be a particularly good place to meet people. I'm also looking into power kiting; i've gotten as far as buying a trainer kite and taking a landboarding lesson (protip: landboarding HURTS. Do Kitesurfing.) and I'm going to be booking some more lessons once I know i've got a source of income sorted. Not sure if that's going to be a social hobby, mostly I just thought it sounded fun.
I've also been looking at meetup groups on meetups.com, but haven't had much luck there so far. I've got 2 meetups coming up which look promising (board games group and British expats), but the first one I went to turned out to be full of 9/11 truthers and conspiricy theorists of various types so... yeah.
If you need more specifics, I'm in the Western suburbs a short train journey from the city itself. I have access to my parent's car sometimes, but usually only in the evenings and at weekends. I'll get getting a car myself but again, I need to know I have a source of income to support it first.
One last thing, I'm recently recovering from social anxiety disorder, as much as you can ever recover from something like that. I'm ok with groups of people now (antidepressants, whee!), but I still despise clubs and anywhere with music playing louder than conversation level (pubs are fine). What I'm saying is, I'm still far too much of a pussy to just go into bars and clubs on my own if I don't know anybody there. Baby steps.
TLDR; I'm looking for nerdy things to do, and places to meet people around Melbourne, Australia. I suck with huge crowds of people and hate noise so no clubs / overly loud places.
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