Hi everyone,
I've just moved to Sheffield after spending 11 years living in London. I'm originally from Doncaster and moved to London for university - I enjoyed my time there, but eventually came to feel my life hadn't really changed and I hadn't grown much as a person, well, not in the last five or so years anyway. I'd spent the past several years going in circles, achieving very little, and I wasn't happy with that. I turn 30 at the end of this month, so wanting a kind of new start I decided to move to Sheffield, somewhere I'd spent a decent amount of time in my teens and knew I liked. It seems like a more simple, less stressful way of living here.
Thing is, I know nobody in Sheffield. I have a friend in Nottingham, but no one closer. I live alone, so I'm actively wanting to meet new people - guys and girls, I get along with pretty much everybody! I'm ideally looking for people aged 24-34 who I have at least a few things in common with. My interests include cinemagoing (I try to go at least once a week), films of the 1950s/60s/70s, reading and dogs. I work freelance in entertainment journalism - something I'm thankfully able to do wherever I live - and am in the early stages of planning a book about film censorship in the UK in the 1990s. I do drink, but am not a heavy drinker.
I'm not really wanting to go to group events etc to meet people - I find those things kind of forced, like you feel you need to make friends there even if there isn't anyone you'd normally be friends with.