Thank you for sharing this perspective. It makes me curious about what we can do to make "making friends" easier... in my experience of the past 2 years in a new place, it's come down to a boring old formula of: time + consistency.

Which is to say, we need more low lift, ritualistic things like a Friday Neighbor Night or a Sunday morning church gathering (or the equiv non faith based one), or a Thu Little League...

I want to think on this more bc while I def agree we need more help here, I now think that technology can play more of an access role (eg. make the info available that this is happening) than trying to be the hero itself.

And then I do think we need to have community leaders whose job it is to make sure everyone in the community is feeling included and heard and welcome.

Not an easy task but a worthy one, I think, of continuing to work on.....