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In my experience none of this is true.
All I meet is people who are already coupled, who I have nothing in common with to form a real friendship. At best we are acquaintances, and they are always married and only interact with other married or coupled people.
I think it was true, 10-20 years ago you could do this. But the social environment has changed a lot, and people are WAY more insular than they were a generation ago. I have been going out for 20+ years, and it's way way harder to meet people, of any age, then it was in say 2008 or 2012. For me things really started to become difficult around 2018. There was also a way broader common culture back then than there is today. Like back then I could say I saw a movie and people knew what it was, now I say I saw a movie and they are confused that I watch movies at all because they are 'boring' or a 'waste of time.'
And when I go out to a public space now by myself, EVERYONE is on their phones. They are buried in a phone or a laptop, at a bar, on 9pm on a Friday night, especially anyone who is either alone, or in a large group. Only small intimate groups or couples seem to be off their phones and interacting with each other.
The world has changed, and it's genuinely more difficult to make social and romantic connections due for the average person. Even my younger nephews who are teenagers, are WAY more insular than I was at their age 25 years ago. They want nothing to do with anyone who isn't already an existing friend, and they have no interest in dating, and they are afraid of college rather than excited by it, and their interests in life are incredibly specialized in a way I can't understand.