Last year I moved to my current location and started my new life in my new hometown. After a couple of months I started to settle down in my new house, my new routine.
I work as a bookkeeper so it has never been a problem for me to meet new people, however I always preferred to form personal contacts outside work commitments. I go to church every week and it has been an important part of my life since my teens. It is not the first relocation for me so it has been sort of customary for me to establish contacts with the community by way of religion.
Our congregation is not too big, the town is small anyway, so it can only be expected. There are other religions observed, as well, so the tiny Methodist church never was an impressive landmark. In all practicality, it should have been re-built long ago but nobody had the money or the resolution to see it through.