Well pub clearly isn't the only alternative as many people never go to pubs/ bars and never played darts lol yet they meet others

meeting people just walking by the lake might be impossible and frankly dangerous but you can meet people in hiking groups and various other social clubs that involve outdoors and walking by lakes and woods. You can look up online

Things in common ..., common values are important. Other than that they don't need to like same activities but I personally do not connect and do not date people who don't read books do not like culture do not enjoy learning new things or going places do not like discussing various events etc in that sense yea I need things in common. But they don't need to be specific like they don't need to read same books or like same movies, just as a general idea

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