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slimriptide
slimriptide Posts: 328 Member
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Just curious. How many miles away is your closest in person WW meeting place? Pre-pandemic, we had two meeting places within 10 miles. Post pandemic there are none in our county. Our closest in person meeting is now 45 miles away.

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  • Al_Howard
    Al_Howard Posts: 9,700 Member
    Ours is about 9mi. They closed the one 3 mi. away. Guess as long as we can still drive, we'll still be going.
  • crewahl
    crewahl Posts: 5,154 Member
    We're fortunate to live right outside the largest city in our state. As a result, we have a Studio in Bedford NH that’s 3.4 miles as the crow flies, and 4.6 miles if that crow is driving an SUV. In terms of other locations:
    • Nashua hotel meeting 14.8 miles
    • Concord church meeting 21.0 miles
    • Salem Studio 24.3 miles
    • Chelmsford MA Studio 28.0 miles
    • Haverhill MA Studio 28.3 miles

    So that’s six locations all within about a forty minute drive. Of course, if we’re up at our timeshare in the White Mountains for a week, the nearest Studio is 43 miles.
  • steve0mania
    steve0mania Posts: 3,405 Member
    I don't go to live WW meetings, but if I check Google maps, it seems there are a couple that are ~15 miles from my work-site.
  • misterhub
    misterhub Posts: 7,085 Member
    I don't attend live WW meetings. I do live in a major city that has a couple of major centers, though. So, you're never more than 10-15 minutes away from a live meeting.
  • 88olds
    88olds Posts: 4,579 Member
    I haven’t been to a WW meeting since 2017. But I attended regularly for about 9 years. When I started it was about a 5 min drive. Actually I could have walked if I wanted to but never did. Then they moved, that was about 10 min by car. One of the reasons I kept going was because it was so easy. We just moved to the Ft Myers FL area. Haven’t seen a WW in my travels.
  • cakeman21k
    cakeman21k Posts: 7,077 Member
    When we moved to Williamsburg in 2013 there was a center about 5 miles away, That center closed during the pandemic closures and for about a year plus it was zoom meeting only, When they finally resumed live meetings it was at a hotel also about 5 miles away. Then our leader retired and they lost or gave up their contract with the hotel and we were back to zoom meetings for about 3 - 4 months. They finally got a contract for a room at a local rec center about 3 miles away just 6 weeks ago. We went for 2 weeks and then left town for our summer RV trip (currently in Glacier NP Montana) We will not be back till mid August so I don't know exactly how that is working out for them.
  • lowbar31
    lowbar31 Posts: 7,320 Member
    The pandemic did us in. There was a meeting at my local church that I attended regularly but it is gone. The one in the next town over is gone. The closest meeting to me now is 40 miles away. I didn't leave WW. WW left me.
  • crewahl
    crewahl Posts: 5,154 Member
    lowbar31 wrote: »
    I didn't leave WW. WW left me.

    I do wonder with the reduction in in-person meetings how they’re handling Lifetimers who have been abandoned.
  • Al_Howard
    Al_Howard Posts: 9,700 Member
    I'm pretty sure they want to do away with FTF meetings, and do all on Zoom. I sat in on a meeting with Lisa, can't remember her Goad handle, with about 50 people. Hated it. No PTP interaction.

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