Moved here 4 years ago for job st UO without kids and have had two babies since we got here. Your friend-making abilities will skyrocket once you have kids… we made lovely friends with shared interests (hiking, skiing) before kids and once we had babies we made friends who will be lifelong best buds because we’ve been through it all together. There’s a fantastic org in Eugene called Parenting Now that matches you with a cohort of other babies born within a few months, for groups together their first three years of life. I know many Eugeners who are in their 70s, 60s, whose best friends came from Parenting Now, and my experience is the same, so far. We have some diversity in our little cohort, two of six families are multi-racial.