Ok I get you and what I said really doesn’t apply to you. If you are going somewhere for months, you are way outside the tourist category. Someone coming for a

Ok I get you and what I said really doesn’t apply to you. If you are going somewhere for months, you are way outside the tourist category. Someone coming for a month or a year is practically living there. And at that point you would want to associate with other people who live there, not tourists there for a weekend. Someone who has lived there all their life and is not very open to meeting new people may not been interested in engaging someone who will only be there for 6 months, but that seems like an entirety separate issue. After all, some people refuse to engage with anyone not born in their town and see even people who have been there for decades as outsiders.