I was an army brat, moving to a new place every couple years (at least). Later in life, I started moving in parallel of my family for my studies. I moved to Chi

I was an army brat, moving to a new place every couple years (at least). Later in life, I started moving in parallel of my family for my studies. I moved to China right after I graduated and have been traveling more than I'd like ever since: I actually spent the past 3 or so years living full time on Airbnb or short term leases between Shanghai, SF, Berlin, DC and NYC. And I still meet people. I do have people regularly becoming good friends. Not that many, but then I've always preferred small circles. You could very well engineer your way through it honestly, but you must realize that, like sales or marketing, this mostly involves dealing with people. And people are tricky. Code will give you an instantaneous (or close enough) feedback; it compiles and crashes, or fails test/QA. You get that in seconds, hours, maybe days or weeks. With sales, you throw yourself out there and start seeing results down the line, weeks if you're very lucky, but most likely months after you kicked things off. And before it yields any results, you have to be consistent in your effort to reach out and maintain the relationship with your prospective clients. You want friends. You really really want to? Well then time to start organizing dinners with the ones you know already, or throwing a casual party at your place next weekend. Propose a drink after work once in a while or plan activities that others can tag along with. Encourage them to invite their friends as well, and slowly, but surely, you'll get invited back and introduced to new folks. Overall, be upbeat and open minded. But again, and that's the real tricky part, you can't just "try real hard for 2 weeks" and then give up. You'll have to be consistent and resolute for a while before you get anywhere. Like all good things in life, it takes time.