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Go have regularly scheduled game nights. They seem to be one of the most popular forms of meetups. The same people go every week; it's a way you make friends. Bridge might be nearly extinct, but social gaming get-togethers sure aren't.

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That’s like me telling millennials “go have kids!” The fact remains that both things are far less common than they used to be and that has societal implications.

They're more common, not less. Much more common. In the time period you're talking about, the only people you'd have had bridge nights with were neighbors and family friends. Today, in a city like Chicago, you could do 5 of them per week. Things were not better in this regard 30-40 years ago; they were worse.

So do people go more, just because they can?

If not, then being able to more doesn't matter, other than perhaps insinuating that it's everyone's fault for not going.

These meetups didn't exist 25 years ago.

Everyone has neighbors, but in a city a ~tenth the size of than Chicago you'd have a hard time to find such a thing.

Maybe "accidental" meetups were more common back then, it came to you rather than the other way around.

A city a tenth the size of Chicago is what 200k? I see similar meetups in these size cities when I look.

I don't. But it is for sure going to be affected by culture etc.

I don't think that these two things are comparable in magnitude.

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