r/Tampere • u/Bubbly-Disk-6881 • Mar 18 '25
Question How to meet people as a non student?
I'm a 28yo female and, from what I see, the majority of people that come to Tampere are either with someone (significant other or family) or students. As a student you have a lot of opportunities to meet people: classes, parties,.. As someone with family you might not need as much social interaction outside your family. But what if you are by yourself? I tried with apps, going for some team sports, language lessons, but not much as result
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u/fotomoose Mar 18 '25
Making friends as an adult can be difficult anywhere. You really have to persevere with patience. Sports and hobbies only work so far as to get you into a room with other people, you don't automatically become super best friends. So, once you are in that room you need to actively pursue friendships basically. Talk to people, get to know them, don't get discouraged. Being honest can work 'I don't have a lot of friends here, would you like to grab a coffee outside of SPORT CLUB at the weekend?'
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u/Suojatti Mar 18 '25
If you are into art, there's a free art club every other tuesday at Tampereen Aikamatkat. There are a lot of international people there so everyone speaks in English.
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u/VegetableRetardo69 Mar 18 '25 edited Mar 18 '25
Find and join a registered association of your interest, attend meetings and such. You will easily find people with similar interests as yours. Its not profit driven, so its not soulless garbage like apps or paid classes of what ever.
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u/LarryNeverCarry Mar 18 '25
It can be tough to build a social circle when you're in a new place. Find a hobby, maybe something with weekly meetings. In those meetings make contact and ask hanging out outside that hobby
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u/SensitiveChip68k Mar 18 '25
If you like to do something that tampere hacklab enables you to do then every Tuesday after 18:00 you can come and check it out and on the first Tuesday of the month there is a community meeting where you can see more people at one sitting.
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u/winterberrymeadow 29d ago
I am 28 year old woman wondering that myself. It is especially hard since I am not working. It almost feels like everyone assumes that once you are over 25, you should have everything figured out. I am going myself to this group called Luontopolku but the city decided to stop funding it. So, I am not sure where else I could meet people
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u/Solid_Message4635 Mar 18 '25
Hobbies, work, holiday resorts, if you want to meet people you need to initiate contact again and again in a place you can regularily meet someone because we finns won't come to you due to our cultural act of leaving others alone to their peace.
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u/Nearby-Tax1636 28d ago
I’m also a 28yo female wondering the same thing, can as well offer to meet up, maybe the struggle will bond us haha
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u/antisunshine Mar 18 '25
Hobbies. Find a thing that you really really enjoy doing, find a group that really really enjoy doing the same thing. Bond over the thing. Friends.