Back again y’all, made a post yesterday regarding how approach anxiety is severely affecting me despite being attractive and good at escalation in a social situation, and decided I wanna try going out multiple times a week with the intention of talking to random people. I would like to ask if there are any good suggestions for places to go during weeknights that aren’t as traditional? I just got out of a relationship like a month ago so I don’t want to go for anything serious right away nor mislead girls into thinking I do.

I go to the gym early in the morning so I don’t see many people there, I work fully remotely so I don’t really have work friends or places to meet them, I do have a couple classes in the afternoons/evenings related to hobbies but they’re very much male dominated (MMA, club soccer) and I’m new to the city I live in so I’m not familiar with all the places yet. I want to hear some suggestions, would maybe going to bars during the week without the intention to drink and just meet people be good or would they be dead?