I don't belong to a club. I have belonged to several over the years though. In Calif. if you didn't belong to one there weren't a lot of good places to fly and club fields are usually pretty nice. In the area I'm in now I have a lot of places I can fly and see no one else, miles of flat too. Nothing like a nice dry lake bed for a landing strip. I have a lot of choices but RC planes is a social hobby. It's one of the places you can buy, sell and trade with other guys. Find out where to buy items at a good discount, who is having a sale, what products are worth spending money on. Every field, club or open land has a anti social or two, trust me, you would be left alone after the first day or two you showed up. Doesn't take long for the guys to pick up on things. I'm pretty sure you wouldn't be bothered with a crowd of people. Where I fly there is a pretty good size group of guys on any given weekend. It's up to them if they want to BS during flights. In RC planes you tend to have a lot of down time between flights. Sometimes it's nice to have someone else to enjoy the hobby with, or not?