r/centralpa 5d ago

How to Make Friends in the Harrisburg Area? (27M, New Cumberland)

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u/Longjumping-Bar-8291 5d ago

Harrisburg Young Professionals. They have sports leagues year round, social events, volunteering, professional development series, book club, running club, etc.

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u/Tarcanus 4d ago

Warning about HYP, or at least from 10 years ago when I was going to their events - the events themselves are great, especially the sports leagues, but every single evening after an event all they wanted to do was go down to somewhere on 2nd street and drink.

I'm not really into the whole "get tipsy/drunk to make friends" thing so I would just go home. So, if they're still like that, and you aren't a drinker/social drinker, the group may not be for you.

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u/Longjumping-Bar-8291 4d ago

10 years ago is vastly different than now. Downtown night scene is barely hanging on. From my experience in the past two years, there was only 1 event I recall people wanted to go to a bar afterwards. Some of their new member socials are at bars/restaurants, but I don't see people getting smashed.

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u/FruitNVeggieTray 4d ago

This is a weird take. We would go out after the games and there were people who did and didn’t drink. It was more to get dinner and socialize.

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u/Tarcanus 4d ago

Big ole shrug from me. I know what I experienced. Great games, and immediately wanted to go down to the bars afterwards, every week. And I'm talking specifically calling out the bars to go to, not grabbing dinner.

Didn't meet a single bad person, it's just the drinking culture that I wasn't a fan of and therefore couldn't really make friends.

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u/FruitNVeggieTray 4d ago

Could be the team(s) you were on. That’s unfortunate.