Like, I think, a lot of people, I pretty much gave up on Meetup.com around the time they started imposing monthly fees for group organizers. (With options like craigslist and Yahoo Groups available for free, I honestly don’t know what they were thinking.) It wasn’t a difficult decision, and it’s not like I’d had any luck actually meeting people there — Long Island being somewhat under-represented. I just closed the one or two groups that I’d tried without success to organize, and I didn’t look back.
Except, I didn’t completely leave. I still get occasional e-mail alerts from Meetup, letting me know that such-and-such a group is meeting, or that so-and-so has joined. And it occurs to me that they’re either running increasingly low on members in my immediate area — at $19.95 a month, I wouldn’t be surprised — or somebody there needs a quick geography lesson
Because New York and New Jersey? Different places.