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You look up networking events in your new city and pick a few that seem interesting. Surely, there must be other people looking for friendships, people like yourself, new to the city hoping to make indelible impressions that will translate into long-lasting friendships. Friendships that will evolve into late evenings trying out new restaurants together and meeting for brunch on Saturday mornings.
The first social mixer looks promising. People are about your age, most of them are fairly new to the city and you even find some who have the same hobbies as you. Numbers are exchanged with the promise to meet over a cup of coffee so as to get to know one another better; and so starts the process of trying to create a social circle in a new country.
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Undeterred souls are brave enough to try it again with another friend or couple. They are in it to win it. They believe that somewhere out there is the friend or group of friends that will be just the match they are looking for. They will go on long weekend trips together and sit around a bonfire while their children play together, they will take vacations to exotic islands together and take turns watching the kids so each couple can have a date night or go snorkelling. Yes, that is the goal after all, to create a new family.
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