Feeling lonely in Melbourne? You are not broken, the city is just built this way

Melbourne keeps winning liveability awards and keeps quietly being hard to land in: everyone has their people already, the good rooms are full of closed circles, and you can go a whole week of uni or work without one real conversation. If that is you, say it here; half this board arrived the same way. What helps, practically: name one night a week as your social night and never book over it. Choose places you can return to weekly (the barista who remembers your order is a real relationship, and it compounds). Lower the bar from "find my people" to "see the same faces twice". This thread is for the specific version of it you are living: new grad, new visa, new suburb, long-distance everything. What does your week actually look like, and what would make it one notch better?