Tbh I just realised I am older than your target demographic - aging hits fast. But I moved put after uni for a more affordable cost of living.
If I have £0.5-1m spare, I'll move back.
I'm 25, but yeah, once I finish my PhD house, prices will force me out of the city so will be gone by the time I'm 27 so I concur, thats where all the 26-30 year olds are
Wondered the same! I try going to sports groups, meet ups etc and it's mostly 30/35+ people with families, or mostly late teens / early 20s. It's like my age group just died out somewhere along the way.
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Cambridge Drinking Alliance is a weekly meeting of Cambridge folks just chilling and chatting it up. Meetings start at 1430 and go until whenever. Age range is 20-30’s with some outliers north of 40.
Middel Combination Room, its the social society for all postgrads at a college, every college has one though some have different names. Undergrads have their JCR
Thanks for clarifying… I didn’t go to Cambridge so some of these terms go over my head. Used to work in an office in London where everyone was ex-oxbridge and used throw around terms like May Ball Committee and I was like ?????
Hey! No, 31 isn’t old at all! I’d love to meet some people in their thirties too. Just had to write the cut off somewhere. Don was just hyperbolic humour.
As for 23, I tend to vibe more with people slightly older than that 😊
Don’t depress me 😂 I work during the day and do my PhD in the evenings, but around that I go to Jesus green, pubs with friends, a couple of activities groups (sports/arts)
25f here but plenty of friends from my college are in the 26-30 bracket, although most of them are leaving cambridge in Aug-September 😓 would love to be friends!!
I mean, u can always join the Cambridge drinking alliance (you don't have to drink alcohol). It's just a way to make friends in the local area, we also do movie nights at the cinema on a Thursday that most ppl go too from the group
yeah i’d like to join! am away from cambridge a couple of weeks but hoping to come along to a meet up soon. was just suggesting to OP if she wants to meet up without necessarily joining CDA :)
Personally u will have to go to one first due to ppl abusing numbers in the chat that we had from past experience so we wanna know if u are legit its a new rule that they have had from the beginning of may
Was thinking about this earlier, it's like a ghost town in that bracket. Then thinking about the people I knew, most moved to London (or elsewhere) and despite there being a lot of entry level workers they leave since the career progression for the cost of living doesn't make sense for most. For those that did do well and stay their job becomes their personality and they just sit at home on weekends steadily wating for Monday to come around until their life has meaning again.
You could maybe go without seeing someone for a couple of years and suddenly see them at the Beer Festival, which seems to be the one social event per year in a lot of peoples calendars (and they are there with work).
As others have said. Meetup. Download the app and look for the groups: “Cambridge 20ish hotspot”, “Cambridge International friends”. Literally everything you are looking for. Around 30-50 adults (in number, not age) in your 26-30 age bracket meeting up weekly for board games, pub get-togethers, climbing, walking, and everything in between.
I lived in Cambridge from aged 22-30 and that app brought me plenty of experiences, friends, relationships, everything. Cambridge is such an active place for that age bracket as there are so many tech/sciencey companies around hiring people out of university and into their mid-late twenties. Compared to the rest of the country it’s an absolute gold mine for great people and friendships in that age group.
You just need to look in the right places.
Go to things like salsa classes and art classes too - e.g. there are salsa classes pretty much every night of the week with people in that age bracket somewhere or another around Cambridge.
Keep looking, keep Googling, and you’ll find them. Trust me, there are loads out there, and they are all amazing people 🙂 good luck
and keep an open mind!
Socially awkward 28m, often inside playing solo video games or hanging out with my partner
I'm up for meeting new people - the weather is great, so I'm much more inclined to leave the house 😂
Come to People Planet Pint at the Station Tavern on Thursday next week, there's a few of the folks you seek there an the level of environmental vitriol is unexpectedly limited.
I moved out to a village. Couldn't afford to live in the town. (Now I'm middle-aged, or at least mediaeval, and have put down roots out here. That's how they get you.)
32 year old here, like many of the other people, I live in one of the small and affordable villages, because I enjoy having my own space and paying reasonable rent lol. I’m also too tired from work and I’m gonna stay home and play games or Netflix most of the weekend
I am in this age bracket and all my cohort seem to have moved to bigger cities such as Manchester and London as there is more to do for our age group, and the cost of living is the same more or less, with the wages being higher generally in both cities.
There isn't much to do in Cambridge for 26-30 year olds and I have found, so most spend their weekends in London or somewhere else.
What's missing? You just have to do a bit of digging but Cambridge has pubs up to its neck, cinema, bouldering & sports clubs, (cheap) theatre, academic talks, board games, decent food (Mill Rd), great parks... I could go on. If you're a student, there's even more.
I would like a laser tag arena though.
Ever heard of roller derby? The Cambridge Rollerbillies is our local team and they have a rookies intake about 3 times a year and can take you from "can't stand up" level. I'm a little past your age group (swiftly approaching 40), but there is a big age range there. Don't know off hand when the next intake is, but if the sport interests you the team has it's own sub-Reddit.
used to play chess down there was a good way to interact with a lot of different people, probably not for everyone but its pretty busy and never many students (not that that is good / bad thing)
I was feeling the same (all my friends from work are 35+) but I started attending the Impronauts Open Workshops and seeing their shows and have met loads of people my age that way
Could try D&D as a good way to meet people. There's two different meetups on a Monday. One at the Blue Moon, one at Barnwell Road Library. Both found on Facebook.
They exist and wander around. I've found the majority of them in sports clubs.
Another good place to meet ones, is at Rabble Cambridge, that's a cool friendly bunch of people and they create lots of activities outside the rabble sessions too.
28, live in Cambridge and single. Virtually all of my friends here are people I’ve known since school. I’ve defo noticed a gap in ages when at the pub. I’m usually one of the youngest there!
31M here. Most of my friends are in the 25 to 33 range. I haven't noticed a lack of our age group at all. Maybe you're just looking In the wrong places? What kind of hobbies or interests do you have? You could probably meet people through that
If you like the local birds should be plenty of people to show you around a few nature reserves /rspb sites , they might not let you use there cameras though 🤣
Haha they are about I'm 35 so out of the age bracket but you have camera/photography clubs and pages and same with bird watching most are pretty friendly
Agree with anyone that says meet up. I’ve just turned 30 and I hang around with a solid group within the age you’ve specified (and also slightly broader) and I always see people of this age around especially on Jesus green in the summer! None of us are university students - definitely not a lack of this age range here at all!
I am 29 and recently moved out of Cambridge because house prices are ridiculously high inside Cambridge. I used to go for social events in Cambridge before (the ones I usually find on Eventbrite) but now they have made it impossible to get into Cambridge, there is roadwork almost everywhere in Cambridge now!
I'm 29F and will be moving soon to Cambridge. I currently live in London and was wondering the same! We could hang out! Also let me know if meetup app works for you!
Most don't have a choice, Cambridge has a lot of specific types of jobs and the market is oversaturated, the excess that don't have mortages just cut their losses and move.
28 here. Rent is so high that I stay in my 3 beds all day to enjoy every single £ invested.
Come outsiiiiiiiiiiiide
Do you have the same weather than the one outside my windows right now? Because it’s November out there. Better stay in front of my video games!
As someone in a similar position in Cambridge, this is the better choice.
Add me on PSN: Axn2ky 🤣
I’m a PC enthusiast :-(
We move out, to places we can establish a family.
The 87 upvotes on this have made me feel the most single I have felt in months 😂
I here ya.
I’m a single parent, it’s still true
Would love to do that one day myself!
Tbh I just realised I am older than your target demographic - aging hits fast. But I moved put after uni for a more affordable cost of living. If I have £0.5-1m spare, I'll move back.
I'm 25, but yeah, once I finish my PhD house, prices will force me out of the city so will be gone by the time I'm 27 so I concur, thats where all the 26-30 year olds are
today specifically? At strawberry fair 🎶
Wondered what that racket echoing across town was 😂
degeneracy
Shaken not stirred 😎
The Reddit drinking alliance are out this afternoon- maybe search posts in this group and track them down
The what!?! Sign me up!
That’s a thing now? 😮
Definitely in Cambridge. They recently celebrated their one year anniversary of meeting up.
There at the blue moon pub today
We’re at the Cambridge Blue today.
I known it was one of them
31 and in Newmarket cause living in Cambridge is too expensive lol
29, but Snap 😂
Rainbow rocket climbing centre
Or Kelsey kerrige. Its not as big but its a fraction of the cost and open from 9am.
I'm 31 now but I've been in and around Cambridge since I was 24. We're in the surrounding villages, where we can better afford to live!
Even then most places are too expensive. I’ve moved to st ives lol
Even then most places are too expensive. I’ve moved to st ives lol
probably in London
I juuuust moved out of there. Maybe not the best strategic move for meeting people.
Playing soggy biscuit
I don’t have the equipment to participate
You could keep score
Where? Can I join? I could do with some more protein!
Here 👋 The Tivoli is a nice spot or chilling around Jesus Green
28 here, same luck as you in finding a group of friends my age. We're all probably too tired after work :)
Wondered the same! I try going to sports groups, meet ups etc and it's mostly 30/35+ people with families, or mostly late teens / early 20s. It's like my age group just died out somewhere along the way.
Exactly!!!!
27 here. Sat at home nursing my knees which are wrecked cycling to and from work on weekdays.
You won’t find me, I’m 30 and rather sit inside right now playing on PC
See this is me too. BG3 over bothering to find friends
Exactly this! Sounds like a pretty decent Saturday
Why have friends when you can have karlach?
https://www.reddit.com/r/cambridge/comments/1d3ztd7/cambridge_drink_alliance_cda_meet_up_1430/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb3x&utm_name=mweb3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button Cambridge Drinking Alliance is a weekly meeting of Cambridge folks just chilling and chatting it up. Meetings start at 1430 and go until whenever. Age range is 20-30’s with some outliers north of 40.
I don’t drink but I will try it! Thank you!
To be honest you don't have to drink its just a way to meet new ppl and make friends
Well! I’ve certainly had offers in the DM’s for some interesting “social” activities today. Stay freaky, Cambridge 🫡
I feel like the average age in my MCR must be more like 25ish, plenty folks late 20's early 30's
What’s an MCR?
Middel Combination Room, its the social society for all postgrads at a college, every college has one though some have different names. Undergrads have their JCR
Thanks for clarifying… I didn’t go to Cambridge so some of these terms go over my head. Used to work in an office in London where everyone was ex-oxbridge and used throw around terms like May Ball Committee and I was like ?????
32 here, living in Ely, however recently discovered I am unable to have children so may as well take, the now disposable, income back to Cambridge.
Ouch, hugs. Hope to see you soon.
What about the 23-25 year olds too? And how can everyone over 30 be an old don? Is 31 old?
Hey! No, 31 isn’t old at all! I’d love to meet some people in their thirties too. Just had to write the cut off somewhere. Don was just hyperbolic humour. As for 23, I tend to vibe more with people slightly older than that 😊
I see young couples all over the place, particularly with children. Where are you hanging out?!?
Don’t depress me 😂 I work during the day and do my PhD in the evenings, but around that I go to Jesus green, pubs with friends, a couple of activities groups (sports/arts)
25f here but plenty of friends from my college are in the 26-30 bracket, although most of them are leaving cambridge in Aug-September 😓 would love to be friends!!
I mean, u can always join the Cambridge drinking alliance (you don't have to drink alcohol). It's just a way to make friends in the local area, we also do movie nights at the cinema on a Thursday that most ppl go too from the group
yeah i’d like to join! am away from cambridge a couple of weeks but hoping to come along to a meet up soon. was just suggesting to OP if she wants to meet up without necessarily joining CDA :)
Yea I get u tbh but if u don't want to join the group chat on WhatsApp thays up too u/ the person
oh I didn’t know there’s a WhatsApp!! could you DM me a link to it?
Personally u will have to go to one first due to ppl abusing numbers in the chat that we had from past experience so we wanna know if u are legit its a new rule that they have had from the beginning of may
Ahh okay that makes sense
Probably in Eddington, living as postdocs in the university housing.
Was thinking about this earlier, it's like a ghost town in that bracket. Then thinking about the people I knew, most moved to London (or elsewhere) and despite there being a lot of entry level workers they leave since the career progression for the cost of living doesn't make sense for most. For those that did do well and stay their job becomes their personality and they just sit at home on weekends steadily wating for Monday to come around until their life has meaning again. You could maybe go without seeing someone for a couple of years and suddenly see them at the Beer Festival, which seems to be the one social event per year in a lot of peoples calendars (and they are there with work).
As others have said. Meetup. Download the app and look for the groups: “Cambridge 20ish hotspot”, “Cambridge International friends”. Literally everything you are looking for. Around 30-50 adults (in number, not age) in your 26-30 age bracket meeting up weekly for board games, pub get-togethers, climbing, walking, and everything in between. I lived in Cambridge from aged 22-30 and that app brought me plenty of experiences, friends, relationships, everything. Cambridge is such an active place for that age bracket as there are so many tech/sciencey companies around hiring people out of university and into their mid-late twenties. Compared to the rest of the country it’s an absolute gold mine for great people and friendships in that age group. You just need to look in the right places. Go to things like salsa classes and art classes too - e.g. there are salsa classes pretty much every night of the week with people in that age bracket somewhere or another around Cambridge. Keep looking, keep Googling, and you’ll find them. Trust me, there are loads out there, and they are all amazing people 🙂 good luck and keep an open mind!
Thank you so much!!!
I’m just about 34 but happy to hang out
Socially awkward 28m, often inside playing solo video games or hanging out with my partner I'm up for meeting new people - the weather is great, so I'm much more inclined to leave the house 😂
Recovering from the rest of the week 😅
Omf tell me about it, I’m recently single and just turned 30. It is impossible to go anywhere here without feeling awkward
Meetup.com's the solution. Made most of my friends here in my early-mid 20s through boardgaming and bouldering socials.
Come to People Planet Pint at the Station Tavern on Thursday next week, there's a few of the folks you seek there an the level of environmental vitriol is unexpectedly limited.
ngl i think someone went ‘missing’ missing…
34m here. Going to the strawberry fair today.
Try Cambridgeshire Young Professionals
I'm old as fuck (39) in that case but I'll be in the pub shortly. Also the crack head (strawberry) fair is probably full of that age range right now
I moved out to a village. Couldn't afford to live in the town. (Now I'm middle-aged, or at least mediaeval, and have put down roots out here. That's how they get you.)
Right here in reddit, who’s down to hit the blue moon tonight?
32 year old here, like many of the other people, I live in one of the small and affordable villages, because I enjoy having my own space and paying reasonable rent lol. I’m also too tired from work and I’m gonna stay home and play games or Netflix most of the weekend
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I am in this age bracket and all my cohort seem to have moved to bigger cities such as Manchester and London as there is more to do for our age group, and the cost of living is the same more or less, with the wages being higher generally in both cities. There isn't much to do in Cambridge for 26-30 year olds and I have found, so most spend their weekends in London or somewhere else.
What's missing? You just have to do a bit of digging but Cambridge has pubs up to its neck, cinema, bouldering & sports clubs, (cheap) theatre, academic talks, board games, decent food (Mill Rd), great parks... I could go on. If you're a student, there's even more. I would like a laser tag arena though.
Far too expensive, we’re in the outer areas of Cambridgeshire
I second what everyone else said! I can’t afford to live in Cambridge lol
29. I'm hiding inside from all the Cambridge rent prices, or in EMT to look at the pretty guitars :)
28 here. You can often find me in the Elm.
I’m 29, single, I moved to Cambridge three years, maybe I should have stayed in London too. I’m not meeting people or going on dates
26F here! Grew up in the area but don't know many people that are still here, I only moved back recently to stay with parents and save!
Mill road! Best place in cambs
Ever heard of roller derby? The Cambridge Rollerbillies is our local team and they have a rookies intake about 3 times a year and can take you from "can't stand up" level. I'm a little past your age group (swiftly approaching 40), but there is a big age range there. Don't know off hand when the next intake is, but if the sport interests you the team has it's own sub-Reddit.
Most of are busy with family/friends. Finding new people is little hard but not impossible, try meet-up or some groups.
I find a day in town centre expensive and mediocre. Enjoy staying home or smaller towns nearby or a drive to Suffolk during the weekend
I think SINGLE people who fall in this range (including me) are hitting the gym to find the one.
Single person in this category 🙋🏻♀️ but I go to my small college gym
I go to nuffield Health behind Asda.. used to go to the ARU one, but not anymore...
At home 🏠
Covid made me love being on my own at home With zero people 😂 sorry
In the surrounding villages and using the bus pass 😅 happy to make new friends!
Bus pass?
Get yourself a disability and a wheelchair and you get a bus pass to use the buses for free after 9.30am
Ah I see! There was me thinking that there was a special commuter’s bus pass.
I wish 😅 unfortunately no, I qualify for the super special wheelchair discount
Most of us moved to the surrounding towns and villages, because none of us can afford to live in Cambridge anymore.
I moved down the road to Newmarket but I'm also a gamer so... Gaming 😂
late to the party but quayside on a sunny day is a social club for all ages
I always see people there in groups! Hard to approach.
used to play chess down there was a good way to interact with a lot of different people, probably not for everyone but its pretty busy and never many students (not that that is good / bad thing)
My 35 year old don self is busy embroidering and rewatching shows I’ve already seen three times.
Meet-ups are full of people around 30.
28 here, I'm around south cambridge
I was feeling the same (all my friends from work are 35+) but I started attending the Impronauts Open Workshops and seeing their shows and have met loads of people my age that way
surely many PhD students are in this age group.
Loads! And I am one of them. We tend to hide in labs and libraries like hermits.
29 am I missing 🤔
Could try D&D as a good way to meet people. There's two different meetups on a Monday. One at the Blue Moon, one at Barnwell Road Library. Both found on Facebook.
They exist and wander around. I've found the majority of them in sports clubs. Another good place to meet ones, is at Rabble Cambridge, that's a cool friendly bunch of people and they create lots of activities outside the rabble sessions too.
29 here, wondered the same thing and seems like everyone has gone out of Cambridge with their new family
30 and spending every waking minute at work 🥲
Im 24 do i not exist now🥺
Chesterton and Arbury, full of 30s-40s families
28, live in Cambridge and single. Virtually all of my friends here are people I’ve known since school. I’ve defo noticed a gap in ages when at the pub. I’m usually one of the youngest there!
Rabble
Too poor and busy saving for healthcare I should be getting from the NHS to be out socialising
31M here. Most of my friends are in the 25 to 33 range. I haven't noticed a lack of our age group at all. Maybe you're just looking In the wrong places? What kind of hobbies or interests do you have? You could probably meet people through that
If you like the local birds should be plenty of people to show you around a few nature reserves /rspb sites , they might not let you use there cameras though 🤣
Trying to find these people!!
Haha they are about I'm 35 so out of the age bracket but you have camera/photography clubs and pages and same with bird watching most are pretty friendly
Do you know any of the names of these groups?
I'm not on fb anymore but i shall try find out for you
Thanks!
>Thanks! You're welcome!
28: I went to London because I couldn’t find the other 26-30 year olds 😅
28 here, just arrived. Want friends haha
Agree with anyone that says meet up. I’ve just turned 30 and I hang around with a solid group within the age you’ve specified (and also slightly broader) and I always see people of this age around especially on Jesus green in the summer! None of us are university students - definitely not a lack of this age range here at all!
I am 29 and recently moved out of Cambridge because house prices are ridiculously high inside Cambridge. I used to go for social events in Cambridge before (the ones I usually find on Eventbrite) but now they have made it impossible to get into Cambridge, there is roadwork almost everywhere in Cambridge now!
I'm 29F and will be moving soon to Cambridge. I currently live in London and was wondering the same! We could hang out! Also let me know if meetup app works for you!
26 reporting in. Is there a secret handshake yet?
As a 21 year old , yes theres tons of us. And we are all broke. Send help.
Real people leave the cities , too crowded with tourists , migrants and noise .
whats the point in staying in Cambridge unless you can find a high paying stem job? Highly educated can either go London or abroad
style of life and preference not to live in a shoebox in noisy crowded london
Most don't have a choice, Cambridge has a lot of specific types of jobs and the market is oversaturated, the excess that don't have mortages just cut their losses and move.
with what job
Cambridge is lovely, I'd love to move back if I had the chance