Fellow expats, this question was probably asked thousands of times but yeah. How do you cope with expat loneliness and how long did it take you to make some actual friends? I have been living in a different country for one month and I just can’t stop feeling lonely and alienated.
I made friends the first week. I met my fist friend at a bank. We both speak Spanish. I met the rest of the friends are Portuguese, but they live in my area, and even though we dont speak the same language, we cooked together and walked in the evenings. I found it so much easier to make friends than in the USA.
Just get out there and give it time.