Working from home loneliness

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Has anyone found a way to combat this?

My company doesn’t have an active office near me and I don’t want to leave because I love the job but I feel incredibly lonely during the week. What I’d really like is to go for a walk or coffee with someone just once a week to break things up but I don’t have any local friends. I’m sure there must be others who are in similar positions? Thinking about whether to join an app (like Bumble BFF?) and try to find a local friend but it’s daunting. Open to other suggestions if anyone has any.

Whereabouts do you live? There might be suggestions based on approximate location.

@MrsGarethSouthgate SW London

https://www.meetup.com/sw-london-20s-and-30s/

Something like this?

Quite a lot of links in this article, some might be of interest?

https://www.flashpack.com/solo/travel/solo-travel-tips/how-to-make-friends-london/

Or this one?

https://www.togetherfriends.com/around-the-uk/find-friends-in-south-west-london/

My sisters partner has always WFH and only when he had to because of works on their house he found a co-working space and I think goes there most of the week now. Have a look to see if there is somewhere like that in your area. They seem to be pretty social there and it’s sort of a bring your laptop job