dear bendy,
i've moved across the country to try to find work, and am stuck living in my cousin's trailer home in Des Plains, IL, hard enough by ORD that the planes go straight overhead when the winds are right and totally drown out the
Ziggy Stardust movie

. though i've gotten some sporadic interest from agencies, i'm not really much closer to being up and running than i was in California, where i was totally marginalized, lost my job, spouse/partner, and my home to foreclosure. i'm working with my depressiion and managing to keep it under relative control, but it's a constant struggle.
so what in the world do i do to try to create a relatively decent social and musical life in a totally new location where i don't know anyone and the market for 55 year old guitarists is limited, especially when i want to do shoegaze, dense experimental, and ambient/EDM. it seems like Craigslist is totally impossible. so what do i do? i totally suck at chatting people up in bars and gigs because i've become reclusive and paranoid over the ears. i just want to find some compatible people i can relate to. so what do you suggest?
signed,
Lost Kitty