I'm 27 and currently I have a few friends that I tend to hang out with, a lot of whom I met at the gym. While they're cool guys, I feel like most of them are pretty boring. Most aren't socially out going, are gamers, and most haven't talked to a chick in years. If I recommend an activity that we can go together, some don't want to or are "busy" with work(when in reality they might be just sitting at home). I was pretty boring most of my life and I've made a lot of changes to better myself in most recent years and I feel like my friends are still the same.

I think this has hit me more recently because I ended up backpacking 20+ countries the past year, and made so many cool friends and I realized my friends at home are boring as fuck. When I was travelling, I'd meet people in hostels who'd want to do something fun every day (go hiking, see something interesting in the new city, try new foods, go party, etc.). I'm back home for now, and here my friends don't even want to go to shoot a game of pool on the weekends because they wanna play video games.

Basically, I want to upgrade my social circle with cooler people. People who wanna do fun shit, people who wanna talk to chicks, people with confidence, etc. How do I get into a social circle like that, or create one like that?

I tried going to 1 hiking meetup and some international meetup and didn't really meet anyone interesting. Old guys, some dorky guys, fat dudes, ugly chicks etc. I assume fun dudes who already have solid social circles and cool lives don't really need to attend these meetups in the first place.

I'd go to bars, but don't drink nowadays to work on my fitness goals, and going solo without alcohol would probably not be very fruitful.

Does anyone have any suggestions? Ideally wondering those who actually managed to go from 0-100.