I moved to a new city two months ago without really knowing anyone besides three guys who are my only three friends here. While that’s fine, sometimes I need girls to hang out with.

It’s connected through Facebook like all of these dating apps, so there’s this preset filter that shows this is a real person

Not knowing anyone at all makes it hard to meet other people because so many times you meet people through other people. The whole friends of friends thing. Of course there’s people at work, but sometimes I need an escape from that because I want a world disassociated with that. Another wrinkle is that I don’t live in an apartment complex, so I can’t meet people at the pool or happy hour events. So how to meet friends in a new city?

Meetup is still something I’m working on trying out – it requires more effort to go out to places and meet people with basically no context about them at all. I also have to wait for events that fit my interests, and sometimes there are no events.

Bumble BFF allows me to meet people on my own schedule as it’s Tinder / Bumble, but for friends with the same concept of swiping right if you want to be friends with someone, and swiping left if you don’t. It sounded like a good idea because I can’t be the only person looking for girlfriends in this city.