Free:
Pokemon go walk, go to park, play with the dog, sit on the porch, go look at the river or go downtown and walk around, or to the beach.
Paid:
Zipline! Expensive here but fun! Mini golf, roller skating, bowling, or zoo. Busch Gardens if we have a pass for the year.
Alcoholics Anonymous meetings.
Unfortunately I get off work at 11pm and not much is open that late so I rarely go out.
Mountain biking, hiking, skiing, or golfing.
Life outdoors is so enjoyable and cathartic.
gotta find hella spots in your city to chill with yourself or someone. Also finding some cool places to drive around, go shopping at random small trinket stores or smoke
My yard. I’ve gotten really into my gardens and hardscaping.
If you want something more consistent join a group especially one organized around a common activity. When I moved to a new city I joined a local game stores weekly DnD game. It was $5 per week and we played in person every week. It was the same rotating cast so it was fun to meet the same people.
I just joined a running group. While a few are crazy distance runners who do multiple marathons a year, including those who do multiple ultra-marathons a year, there are more casual people like me. Its great to exercise every week and then we get to chat afterwards when we go out for food. These are common in most cities and there might even be more than 1 to try out.
The great things about these groups is you can skip a week without any issue and then just join back in. A shared interest allows you to chat about that as a jumping off point. Also some of these are a wide age range which is interesting to see people in different stages of life.
Great idea about joining local groups. There’s an adult kickball group in my area that has a lot of members/teams.
They are generally sports related but anything will do. Its great since its weekly you just have standing plans with the same people. Also people go there specifically to meet people and there is an established group
To my back yard, where I light up the firepit, and drink whiskey
We have an incredible local park with a great greenhouse that has tables you can sit at and read and have coffee.
Hiking, socialist work or socialist socializing, friends, that’s mostly it
Nice.
Mountain biking, beach, rock climbing, climbing gym, snowboarding, trail run, photo walk, games night, camping … I like where I live!
Cemeteries
Parks. Not every state / city has good ones. We have awesome parks where I live. Not so much when we went to visit my family last month.
Beach.
Board. Game. Clubs.
They are f___ing awesome!
When I visited Copenhagen I visited a massive board game cafe. ‘Bastard Cafe’. Not my video but look how awesome it is:
What a great space! That looks beyond cosy.
can you explain how you participate in these clubs? where I’m from, there are restaurants and coffee shops that offer board games for you and your group, as in, you already know the people you’d be playing with, and they’re normally not a place you’d go by yourself, waiting to find someone to play with.
Each area of the world is different.
Where I am, there are 3 or more groups that meet up every 2 weeks. They are informal meetups with a small fee of $5, for anyone to come down and join in playing boardgmes with others. At community centres in different suburbs.
You can pre-arrange to play with friends, or just meet and play with people on the day.
I’ve made many good friends, found great games, and taught many games to others through these groups.
To find them in your town, search for this:
Boardgame association [your town name]
Casual boardgame night [your town name]
Boardgame meetup [your town name]
If you can’t find any meetups using these strings, it may be an opportunity to set up a casual game group in your town.
- Boardgames that are awesome and I’ll play at anytime: Bruges, Inis, Port Royal, Innovation, Targi, Jaipur, Grand Austria Hotel, Morels.
- Public swimming pool
- Public library
- Public park
- walking path by the river
- espresso bar
- public bath (with the little one)
- friends house
- family (in law) house
- mall / department store
- cinema
- walk or bicycle around the neighborhood
- supermarket
Since we got the baby I can’t do it anymore but especially when I was single it was one of my favorite things to do. I had a semi professional photo camera and I would go out and do street photography. I would go to another city for a daytrip just to do that.
Boy whatever this public coporation is it seems to have some nice stuff. Hope it catches on. /s
