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In the last six months I've moved to a new apartment in another part of town, I changed jobs, and I graduated from grad school. My social life has been severely disrupted! The change in work was maybe the most dramatic since I moved from a highly social environment to being isolated in an office by myself (and on a floor with taciturn colleagues). It's only been a few months, but I already see some mild forms of the symptoms described in the parent comment.

Now, being in grad school, working full time and having a toddler did a lot of the work in atrophying my social connections over the last three years, but this spring delivered a knock-out blow. Luckily, I'm attentive to my mental health and generally a proactive person, so I've outlined steps to try and at least get into another job (Cracking the Coding Interview... groan). I've also started scouring the internet looking for ideas to start developing my community ties:

  - Our local YMCA has programs for families that we'll be taking advantage of, including free babysitting once a month(!!!)
  - There's a local collective of volunteer "civic hackers" that I'll start hanging out with after summer's over.  
  - I just saw, somewhere above in this comment thread, a mention of meetup.com. It's now open in another tab.  
  - I'm even leaving comments on the internet, such as this!

Anyway, just wanted to share (edit: formatting).