[pipio21]

I had the same experience, but also expat, love traveling.

For me making new friends is easy, probably because I am used to it. It is not that hard unless you are desperate.

It is like money, when you don't need it, it way easier to make money than when you need it.

The best way to make friends it to find an indirect way of being in close contact with other people, an help them.

For example I have made incredible friends helping people on drugs. After months or years of pain, when those people get out of drugs they are your friends for all your life, because you were there when very few people were.

I also made lots of friends volunteering teaching(poor) kids 3d printing and engineering in general. When those kids become men or women they surprise you.

From my point of view, you make friends when you don't need to make friends, because you have more important things to do than focusing in yourself.