Best places to meet women in a rural area if I'm not into drinking etc?

Help!!!! wrote: »

First things first, get to a doctor & sort out your social anxiety. Not much chance of getting anywhere if your anxious (take it from someone who knows)
What sort of rural area do you live in? Village/town or middle of no where?
You dont drink, women like coffee/tea, is there a coffee shop you could go?
Is there a family resource centre near you? They usually run Failte Isteach classes for migrants, so you could volunteer, its only teaching basic English but there would usually be women of all ages at them

Pat Mustard wrote: »

This.

No matter what it is that you want, supply and demand are key. If you're in a rural area where there are 70% plus unmarried young bachelors aged under 30, you will find that the competition is tough. Although men may accept physical jobs in rural environments , women are simply less likely to do so. Rural towns are not places that are as easy to meet young women as cities. That's a fact.

You are young, at 29. You mentioned your business and your business partner in his sixties. If I found myself in your position, 29 again and choosing between a business and a life, I'd have chosen money and business at that age, too. But I'd have been unlikely to have gone for a rural town and if I did, there would have to have been the prospect of meeting someone in such a place. It would have to have been a busy town with a busy nightlife.

Pulling is a numbers game. Put yourself out there and you'll meet somebody. Put yourself out there a lot and you'll meet loads of people. But there must be a lot of women out there too. Otherwise numbers are against you.

A good wingman is always useful to assist in meeting women as well.

Plopsu wrote: »

OP, is this an issue meeting women or a more general absence of a social life?

Oh, and there is some seriously bad advice in some of the posts here that if you follow it will have people crossing the road to avoid you.

Plopsu wrote: »

Well, I would look at developing a social life first, which will increase your exposure to people and possibly lead to you meeting somebody (and I say that as somebody who's in a similar (though possibly more leaky) boat).

As regards the second point, some posts have suggested hanging round swimming pools and at shops. They'd be great ways to get known as 'Crazy Weird Guy' but not much use otherwise.
Actually making friends is really difficult, despite the usual suggestions you'll get. If people look at their friendships over their lives they'll mostly find that they came from situations where they were forced into a space with people for a prolonged time (school, college and sometimes work). Outside of that, it's shared interests (which is fine if there are groups for your specific groups). You're unlikely to make friends talking to people at bus stops and supermarkets (unless you see the same ones all the time) and probably not much more from taking a class. Honestly, I'm trying to puzzle this stuff out myself.