I’m in the process of doing the above and would like to hear about your experience. Were there any surprises? What was as you expected?

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      Yeah, I’m a pretty cheap person, but I don’t go to a bar to save money, I go to relax and socialize.

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      If you’re not living a boring life, then you should naturally come across plenty of different people with plenty of different opportunities to make connections.

      “Meeting people at the grocery store” is a lazy and ignorant excuse to justify going to bars. If you think those are your only two options, then you’re the problem and I pity anyone who gets caught in your web.

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        And you don’t understand that some people prefer the bar. But I guess you have the only right way to do things.

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          If you’re insecure about getting taken for a ride, that’s on you. There’s no argument you can make to change the fact that you are being fleeced when you buy alcohol at bars. Drug addicts say the same things when they are paying 500%+ markup on their drugs. “It’s worth it to them.”

          Keep going to bat for the people ripping you off. It’s what’s expected of you.