[reaperducer]

It's definitely not open hostility, but many little things which quickly give you the impression that you are not welcome and seen as a threat. You are treated differently as soon as you are identified as a foreigner, and this treatment is completely independent of your own behavior.

Sounds like Seattle in the 2000's.

As soon as one of the locals found out you're not from there, you get the "Seattle Freeze."

Fortunately, I read about it in a book before I moved there, so I knew it when I recognized it. But that didn't make it any less uncomfortable.

I guess with SEA filled with expat tech people these days, it's either gotten much better or much worse.