They say that there’s thing called the Seattle freeze. Whether it’s true or not, I had always wondered the same about San Francisco.

People often attribute to the difficulty in making new friends to the difficulty for meeting people outside work. That there’s no such social setting like school and the like. And yet.

When I first moved to San Francisco in 2006, I met people quite easily. Yet I have noticed that it’s incredibly hard to make friends with someone one-on-one. It’s a group setting and others must be invited. If they weren’t, it appeared pushy or “something weird was happening”. Everyone assumes that everyone else has something better to do. Especially with what Facebook, Twitter, G+…

I have always hated the “let’s have lunch sometime”. At first, I would agree happily and then it wouldn’t happen. In the end, I determined that I wasn’t interested either…that I should have read between the lines and that we were being nice.

Do you want to get lunch sometime?