Being there for a few months is a different animal. After a few weeks, you pretty much live there and are somewhat of a local yourself. You are no longer a tour

Being there for a few months is a different animal. After a few weeks, you pretty much live there and are somewhat of a local yourself. You are no longer a tourist trying to collect an experience, just a person who happens to connect with another person. I was in Vienna recently for a month. We went to a couple of shared interest meetups with a mix of expats and Austrians. It didn’t really matter where folks were from or exactly hown long they’d been living in Vienna, we had come to connect on the common interest, not that we had a made friends with a “real Austrian”.