I agree with most of what's been said - it would be nice to be able to just meet up for coffee or lunch with people and share locations without being worried about stalkers or killers, but... unfortunately, that is not the world we live in.

I live in San Francisco/the Bay Area, and it's not even easy to meet people who live around here (not that i've actually been trying, but w/e). I'm interested in meeting people I can talk with and be friends with, not play with, but it's still difficult. The one advantage to living in this area is that there's a very strong gay community here (in case you didn't know ;D) which is generally more open, so i prefer hanging out in the Castro over other parts of the city.