Moved to Atlanta - looking for advice
What's up WSO
Just moved to ATL from NYC a week ago for a PE job - looking for some guidance on what to do. So far, I've just been grinding hinge and bumble with moderate success, but I don't have any male friends here. Anyone got any tips on how to assimilate?
So far my ideas are:
Golf club
men's basketball
meetup
I'm a pretty typical finance guy so any suggestions are appreciated
Thanks in advance
Lived in Atlanta for most of my life. To be honest, Atlanta's culture is pretty insular, and it's pretty hard to break in if you don't have strong roots to Atlanta (grew up in Buckhead, went to a prep school, parents went to the handful of churches where all white-collar professionals in Buckhead attend or were part of the country club) or are already friends with people who are "in". Peronal advice would be to hang out with your finance peers and co-workers for a while, attend events with them, and meet more people that way.
OP does not want to be friends with John Rutherford III (Lovett, class of ‘18) anyway.
I hate when people say that growing up going to buckhead schools / churches is the only way to be in the “in” group. The “in” group is whatever you want it to be - this isn’t high school. The buckhead crowd is honestly a tiny portion of Atlanta
Atlanta is a huge city, and people from all over the country are doing big things there