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Bleak if you're not in the uni. Eventbrite only has events for the 35-50 crowd, and I don't want to use apps since they're transactional and not authentic. Where do people go to find other young people? Don't want to risk doing something at the gym, and pubs and clubs dislike guys coming in by themselves (say a news article a month ago about a club that just doesn't let in lone guys anymore). For guys 22-24 who are newly graduated and got a girlfriend, where did you meet them? I'm assuming most people met on an app or among friends, but I just moved here a month ago and don't want to use apps? All my hobbies are extremely male-dominated. Any advice?

Hi all,

A few months ago I started a community for unemployed people / remote workers (or anyone that would like be part of a social community).

We had some success but the main issue that kind of lead to a lapse was that we were trying to meet too often / sporadically but also with the intention to work together which also was a challenge as some of us obviously weren’t working so this meant they didn’t stick around very long at the work meetings.

So I have been doing some thinking and I have proposed in the group chat (Work Club : D Discord Group Chat) that we meet once or twice a week for a couple of hours at the grain and hop store and talk about our work journeys but also have a drink or play some pool.

Being unemployed or working remotely etc can be a very isolating experience so I hope that these regular meetings will be an opportunity to connect with others and something to look forward to as a social event that makes the work week worth it (much like going for drinks after work on a Friday).

Tldr - if you want to join a social group for those job hunting / remote working join here (discord)

Hi there, now that Serena's has closed down, where is the best place to get an engagement ring resized and perhaps polished in Cambridge, ideally for a decent price?

Moving out soon so I need a few boxes to pack my stuff in. Any help would be appreciated. Located near the city centre

This is my first time posting in a while but witnessed the aftermath of an altercation and wanted to give people a heads up. Coming back from a run with my flatmate around 8:00pm tonight and witnessed the aftermath of a stabbing outside HungRill on Mill Road. A man had been stabbed in the arm following an altercation. I heard someone yelling about crack cocaine during it, so it may have been drug-related, but I can’t confirm that.

He was bleeding heavily. Bystanders were holding his arm up and had applied a belt as a tourniquet. Three people called 999. It took roughly 15 minutes for the ambulance to arrive, which felt like a long time given there was a police car stationed right outside the Co-op just across the road.

While bystanders were tending to him and waiting for the ambulance, the two people involved in the attack came back and started threatening the people helping him. The ambulance arrived while this was happening.

Police have already been called and are aware. Posting this mainly so people know what happened and can be aware if they’re in the area. If anyone saw anything or has more info, might be worth passing it to Cambridgeshire Police.

Im M30 (without a kid) and finding it so hard to find a date in Cambridge. I am based in a village just to the North. Any tips?

Apologies if this is the wrong place to post this, it doesn’t really seem like a legal issue but also a bit serious for any other subs I could think of. This is a bit of a long shot anyways, but I figured it was worth trying.

So I believe I was recently followed home in Cambridge, once I got near to my house he asked me out and asked to kiss me when I refused. We were alone on a quiet street, he had clearly followed me, knew roughly where I was living and was much taller than me so I felt uncomfortable and unsafe. I am quite sure I was followed and not just stopped, I’ve never seen this man before, we were in a small cul de sac and the way I walked home is not a route anybody would normally take as it takes twice as long as the normal route.

I’m not sure what to do. He clearly didn’t understand how creepy this was or how to interpret social cues and had some abnormal speech patterns, so I think he is likely disabled and don’t believe he fully understood what he was doing. I don’t think the right course of action here is to report it if it could get him in trouble, but I do want somebody to explain to him how this is inappropriate though, before someone else is followed home too and made to feel unsafe, but I have no idea how I’d go about it. Would anybody know what services can help with this?

Anyone know what happened to it?

Music shop (that had been there for years) shut and the entire interior was ripped out and refitted. Cafe Gusto moved in, closed after what seemed like less than a month for a ‘rebrand’ into some kind of a wine merchant. Opened again with no wine in sight and is again some kind of a coffee shop and cafe. They closed abruptly for a day in the middle of July saying they’d reopen the next day and then stayed closed. Now it appears they’re permanently shut and looks like furnishings and goods are being systematically removed.

This seems to be happening all over the city these days. New ‘businesses’ open up, only to stay open for like a month and then either ‘rebrand‘ or shut completely.

Part of it is no doubt the difficulty of opening and keeping a business profitable in a place like Cambridge. But something doesn’t pass the sniff test - especially when it seems like it happens often around here.

Is it money laundering? All the BBC stories about the vast supply chain that supports the boat crossings in the Channel have me probably crying wolf a decent bit.

I am a runner so don’t use the gym a huge amount (though I should be using it more, and this summer have thought how nice it would be to have access to a treadmill)

I also love Jesus Green Lido and a few years ago I had a student membership there and I used to go for a run, end it at JGL, have a nice shower and a dip in the pool, and it was lovely.

I no longer qualify for any of the discounts so I’m looking at £52/mo which is a fair chunk for me. I live on Maids Causeway so I’m very close to JGL and Parkside Pools and gym. I have heard some…not so good things about Parkside Pools so was just wondering if anyone goes there and enjoys it? It would be ~£40/mo just for JGL so I feel like this way I’ll get a bit more out of it, and maybe I’ll actually do some strength and conditioning!

Does anyone have experiences living off Cromwell Road ? Is it safe? An on area ? It’s further away than I was expecting to live from the centre but a good price… Thank you so much

Can anyone recommend decent training rooms in Cambridge or it's suburbs/outskirts?

I’m looking for somewhere suitable for a one-day classroom course

Main requirements:

• Parking on site, or easy on-street parking nearby
• Outside the main centre/commercial zones
• Room for up to 10 people
• Tables/chairs, screen/projector if possible
• Tea/coffee/lunch options would be a bonus, like an onsite café - doesn't have to be a buffet, but I'm not against putting in an order with a local caterer/sandwich shop, don't need anything fancy.

Previously used Printworks in Papworth but they're unavailable for the date that I require it on.

Hotels/conference centres don't usually work for us because they want minimum numbers for buffets/day delegate rate. Elsewhere we use sports clubs, golf clubs, business centres etc.

I’ve found a few options online, but local knowledge is usually much better than Google for this sort of thing.

Any recommendations appreciated.