[topsycatt]

Both are fair questions. For the former, I'm personally looking for new friends and the novelty of meeting strangers. Some of my favorite memories are from meeting strangers and getting to know them over the course of an evening.

For the latter, I like to think not (but who really knows someone else's experience of themselves?). I enjoy talking to strangers for it's own sake and I'm not generally bracing for boredom, my question was primarily about good places to explore that have a higher ratio of interesting interactions to non-interesting interactions.

I understand the classification is very subjective, so I left the question somewhat subjective to hear not only answers to the core question, but also answers to the implicit question of "what do you find to be interesting".