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So I just moved back to where I grew up and got my first "real" job.  Everything is going well and I'm wanting to get back in the dating scene.  I spent the last 8 years in a big city and pretty much just used online dating.  But I wasn't in a good spot to be in a serious relationship and had a lot of self improvement to do.

Fast forward to now and I got my shit together mostly and I feel like I want to start dating seriously.  So I start online dating, and while the overall dating experience was better, nothing really worked out.  Since I'm in a smaller community, it didn't take long for the pool of girls on the dating site to dry up.

So now I'm actually *gasp* gonna have to use more traditional methods to find dates.  The problem is the two common sources for meeting potential dates (work and friends) don't really have much.  I work in kinda an isolated office where I only really interact face to face with 3-4 people.  My friends in the area are married with kids thus not exactly game to go out to meet girls.

So at the moment I'm kinda on my own to go out and meet girls, but I've never been particularly good at that.  I tend to be a little shy and just walking up to someone at a coffee shop or something just to strike conversation is tough for me.  I'm not so much afraid of rejection, honestly my bigger fear is I discover they already have a boyfriend (or worse, married).  That and most girls just don't go hang out places by themselves, so trying to strike up conversation when they are with a bunch of friends ups the intimidation factor.

I know it's cliche but where and how do I go meet girls on my own?  Should I just man up and just go to random places and try to strike up conversation or what?
<bot>: Got decent job and moved to small town, want to date but online dating has gone dry.  Need to figure out how to do it the old fashioned way.