We avoided visiting our nearest club because my wfe was worried about "meeting someone we know". After she bumped into a college acquaintance at a club hours away, she got over that hesitancy. Ironically, in the five years since we joined our local club ( 45 mins away), we've not met anyone crossing over from our textile world, except for meeting people on the " outside" that we already knew from meeting them first at the club, or textile friends we've invited to visit the club with us.