Tips for Alleviating Loneliness and Making Friends in a New City

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Regular social contact helps alleviate loneliness, so it's important to maintain social interactions. In addition to sports, activities like art or pottery classes can provide a regular schedule. Keeping a routine and encountering people with the same schedule can facilitate meeting new people. Saying yes to everything in the first six months, using BumbleBFF, and avoiding dating for the first six months are recommended. These tips can help make new connections and overcome loneliness in a new city.

A lot of us in our 20s feel the urge to upend everything and move to a new city - maybe for work, for a partner or just for the pure adventure of a new experience and environment. So in this episode we're going to break down why our 20s are perhaps the best time to make this major life change, from the lack of external responsibilities to the psychological benefits it brings, including self reflection, promoting a growth mindset and realising our ideal selves. We'll also explore why the urge to move to a new city really reflects our innate novelty seeking behaviour and why some people, the so called 'serial movers', can never seem to stay in one place for long. And finally, what are some of the practical ways we can actually do this and build community, maintain financial security, avoid feeling isolated? And what exactly is the so-called '6 month' rule? All of that and more, listen now!

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