I&#x27;ve certainly found myself in the difficult position of having moved to a place where I know nobody. I read &quot;How to win friends and influence people&quot;, hoping I could learn how to make better friends with it. It&#x27;s easy to go to meetups and make shallow connections with small talk, but getting people to talk to me is like pulling teeth, a lot of single sentence reponses and no attempt to further the conversation.