If you look for love in a bar or a night club, you will find a drunk who is just trying to use you for gratification. Try looking in better places:
- Volunteer, you will meet other volunteers there.
- Join a club--not a night club, but a club for something you are interested in like a sewing club, chess club, etc.
- Take up a hobby. You can connect with others who share your interest.
- Get involved with community functions, like town meetings, fairs, theater groups, library events, etc.
In order to meet a number of local people to be possible future dates, you have to go out there to where they are. Also, this will give you a chance to get to know them as platonic friends first, which will give you a chance to decide if you want to pursue any of the relationships to a deeper level. So, happy hunting! 
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If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured, or far away.--Henry David Thoreau