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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I dunno where you are but my group of friends and mom friends at school is amazing. friends working on legislature to improve peoples lives here in the US, voting rights, researchers working on cutting edge vaccines and treatments, doctors and nurses serving under privileged communities, lots of friends working in big name and small nonprofits that actually serve local populations, countries and animal needs. But nearly all of them are pretty chill about oversharing or bragging about their work. Many have been published, features/quoted on the news. None wanted a "big fancy job" and all wanted to do something useful for the world and still be able to be a part of their community and most raise families. [/quote]

Where do you live? I want to move to your neighborhood! My neighbors talk about book clubs, country clubs, and other boring topics :( I haven’t found my people here…
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OP here. This is exactly what I’m looking for. It’s funny that some posts mention that I need to look for it in more elite circles while others say to look in less elite, further out suburbs. We live in a regular suburb. We lived in a fancy one before and people were pretty arrogant and shallow. Here, people are more down to earth but I haven’t met anyone who likes to talk about their work.

I get that a lot of people choose flexible jobs when parenting, or don’t like talking about work, or the work is too technical. There’s nothing wrong with discussing tomatoes if that floats your boat. But somewhere out there, there must be people who want to talk about new discoveries in psychology, education innovation, effective healthcare interventions and other cool things happening in their industries. [/quote]

There's so much going on in the world. You aren't going to bump into people on the street following the same specific things you are. Read and watch and chat about things on sites like MetaFilter, Reddit (be selective), YouTube (be selective).
Move to a dense city where there are plenty of people to fills seats in activities and meetups for whatever interest area you have, and you see hundreds of people every day.
People who have kids or jobs are too busy to stumble across you, and people in suburba are at home or in their cars. [/quote]

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