Where can I go to meet new people around my age that'd be interested in discussing various (and more serious) topics?

@Soxs45 People around my age usually don't visit those places and if they do, they are only focused on *that* (the reason they came for) so...no cross topics :/

@Melpomene well there's a club in the library locally where I live that is literally just people between the ages of 18 and 30 and we get together and we talked everything from politics and science to religion and pop culture. we meet twice a month and actually it's kind of nice to be able to have intellectual conversation with people because on the internet there's no intellectual conversation it's just one more on with diarrhea of the mouth talking with no clue what he saying. in an in-person setting there's actually some kind of accountability there.

@Soxs45 Exactly! I'm glad you've found your group