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Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Friends
Hey I'm new here to the nest, I've lived in St. Louis about two years now and haven't met one single person or made one single friend! (I work on the Illinois side) How do you guys do it? Have you lived here your whole lives? How do you get involved to meet people?
Re: Friends
I am surprised that you have been here two years and haven't made any friends because St. Louis is full of friendly people. Are you a really shy person?
Personally I have lived here my whole life but I know that other nesties have moved here from other cities. We just had a nest GTG this past Saturday (12/13) and of the five of us that attended two moved here from other cities. We will be having another GTG sometime after the first of the year so maybe you could meet some of us then.
I checked out your bio and noticed that you like to cook, read and have a dog. Dierberg's has different cooking classes so you might want to take one of those. I've done a couple of those with my SIL and we really had a good time. Also if you go to a Barnes & Noble or other bookstore they usually have coffee shops and you might meet somebody there while checking out a book. Do you work? If so maybe you could invite someone to go out for dinner after work.
Just don't give up and be sure to check in with the nest to keep up on anything going on.
Hi there!!! I moved to St. Louis from San Diego in August... I think it's probably hard making new friends any where, but specially when you're out of school and don't have friends at work (for instance, non of my coworkers is in my age group or have the same interest as I do).
Currently I'm going out with some girls I met through a message board, and like Mrs. Goose said, I was one of the persons who went to that GTG last Saturday... When I move to San Diego more than 2 years ago I met a bunch of people through The Knot and we had a good group of 10-15 girls that went out regularly, probably 5 of those girls I consider very good friends now.
I think your best bet would be to try and meet girls here, we can definetely arrange more GTG, something that helped me was asking specific questions on the board, and usually when you need help with something somebody will give you their email address so you can talk about it more "offline" (as in not publicly on the board), then, if you like how that person seems you can always say something about hanging out one day.
You can also try those cooking classes, or classes at a Community College or Craft store if you're into that, maybe even at your church if you go to one, a lot of them have different activities for different age groups.
But, most importantly, don't be shy to ask somebody out per say. For instance you could come here and say "hey who's wants to go out for drinks?" or "who's available for a quick GTG?"...
Where do you live? I live in Chesterfield right now, maybe we could get together or something
We're staying in town for the holidays, so I have some free time.
I have lived here my whole life, however, most of the friends I had in school have drifted away for one reason or another. I am sort of in the same place you are. I want to make new friends, but not exactly sure how. Plus I am really shy so that makes it even harder.
I?ve met some great ladies on this message board, so I would say stick around, chat, and come to some of the g2g. I think we were hoping to have another g2g after the beginning of the year. Not sure if you have anyone at work that you?ve clicked with, but if you have try going to happy hour with them (that?s how I met a couple of new friends). We started hanging out with our neighbors shortly after moving where we are and became friends with them. I?m not sure if that?s an option either? If you go to a gym, maybe strike a conversation up with someone there?
i've been here 5 years & have about 3 local friends. It's very tough if you aren't from here. Any Illinois connection (I live in Fairview Heights) makes it tougher.
I hope your experience is different.
Good luck!