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What are your favorite places to meet?

I'm lazy. I like to meet in my neighborhood, or near somewhere that I'm going to be, anyway. Basically, if a guy makes it hard for me to get to where I'm going to meet him, or wants me to go way out of my way, I have to be desperately hot for him to make it happen.

There are a couple of cafes and coffee shops in walking distance to my house, and those are my preferred venues for meeting. Meeting for coffee is nice because it can be a long or short date, depending on how things go, and it's pretty inexpensive. On occasion, I'll meet someone for a meal, usually lunch, since that's both inexpensive and time-limited, as well as being less "loaded" than a dinner date. When the weather's nice, I'm often happy to meet somewhere outside, like a park, though it's nice to have a place to sit down, and having coffee or food gives me something to do with my hands.

I sometimes will meet someone at my house, though I don't necessarily recommend this; it's clearly the less-safe way of doing things, not to mention that if I decide I don't want to fuck him, it's more awkward and difficult to say no. When I do this, I make sure that a roommate or neighbor is home as a safety.

I never meet a guy for the first time at his place. There was a guy this fall who I was unusually hot for, but he was completely unwilling to meet anywhere else. Too bad.

All told, though, meeting at a friendly, low-key coffee shop near my house is far and away my preferred locale to meet someone the first time.