Trouble connecting to other cosmopolitan single people

This is a rant, a complaint, a not very useful expenditure of the bytes to the cause, but this needs to be said.

I was at the xmas party in PG's home, and two of her friends, one from work and one from her school from wayback, were talking about being a single person in the city. I am one too, so I figured maybe we'd have notes to compare, experiences to share. Turns out there is a lot of mismatch in different people's experiences. Like when K said at least in Seattle men pay for the women's food whereas in NYC they have to pay for themselves, and that's what the women have got going. And how she considers every person who likes her who's not of her race to have a fetish for her race. Also the expectation of hard work from her partner: how she didn't understand people having hobbies because if she had had any free time at all she would get a second job to make more money, and that's what she would expect out of her partner too. And on and on it went, it was pretty miserable. I didn't have a good time hearing it. Fortunately for me, PG and her partner, and her younger sister MG were also on the other side of the room, trying to avoid that unpleasant complaining conversation, so the four of us started watching movies to drown out the miserable exchange of experience. The rest of the group took a hint at that point and somebody suggested we play board games for fun, and the night turned for the better. I lost obviously, multiple times in multiple games, but it was so much more interesting than listening to the other conversation.