I'm sorry that I'm coming here and your post is already 7 days old :(

My husband and I lived in Vancouver for most of our lives and I always found it such a difficult place to make friends! The winters always drove me crazy too .... all that rain, so we up and left 1+ years ago and came to Mexico instead :) The smoke I'm sure hasn't helped there either!

I'm a member of a lot of Discord groups but am not a fan of blah blahing on them all the time. So here's what I did: Join a group, be active and chatting in the beginning to make some "friends", but visit their posts so they remember you better, then slowly back away from chatting on discord, but continue to "check in" and of course regular check in's on their posts.

Trust yourself. You have plenty of good things to say.

I almost forgot; I'm one of the judges in the Pay if Forward contest where @viking-ventures featured you. Please consider joining us with an entry of your own next week; it's a great group of people there!