On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 5:15 PM, Deepa Mohan <mohande...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 5:09 PM, Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan < > chandrachoo...@gmail.com> wrote: > \ > >> Um, This argument doesn't quite ring true Venkat. >> I landed in Bristol with no existing friends circle there. I built one up. >> All of us do that: be they work friends, blog friends, silk friends, family >> friends, uni friends or whatever. I went to Dubai and did the same thing. >> How does it matter which city you chose to live, if you don't take the >> effort to make friends? How did you/he make friends when you moved out of >> Bangalore/Mumbai to California? You do the same thing when you get back. >> > > I disagree CCG. I lived in Chennai (our second stint there) for 4.5 years. > I would invite people over, go to their homes, meet them...but never got to > make any close friends....it was not for want of trying. I just did not get > to meet the people "right" for us. It does happen, it happened to me. > > So...let's not have the "only yourself to blame" record playing, please! > >
