Bootstrapping friendship ain’t easy

Bootstrapping friendship in Germany is not easy.*

For those of you who are unfamiliar with the term “bootstrap” - by bootstrapping friendship I mean meeting one person, then meeting his/her friends and eventualy friends of his/her friends, social networking kind of thing.

It’s very hard to find someone interested in going out during the weekend. People I know are all nice, but kind of superficial in their way. This is especially true in case of my flatmate who seems to be a nice person and probably doesn’t have anything against me. It’s just like he just wanted to have as little to do with me as possible.

Now, this is something I had taken into account. I am a big boy, I made the decision and I am facing the music now. But don’t worry, I’m not suicidal ;-)

So, if you think of emigrating (temporarily or not), try to:

• go with other people, that’s always somebody to fall back to
• go to a place where you will meet others in your situation, they will want to meet other people as well
• go to a heterogeneous place, higher probability of meeting the right people
• live with lots of people in an apartment or house, There were around 7 people in my previous place and it was hell of a fun!

* Wow! The ultimate inverted pyramid. Jakob Nielsen would be proud of me ;-)

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