Dear Nate

In your new city are there people who hold the same beliefs as you?  When ever I travel away from my home I check out the area I am going to find out whether there are any meditation classes even if they are not Buddhist or if there are any Quaker meetings, that way I stand a chance of spending time with people that I already have some common ground with and therefore my language and demeanor are not alienating . I have probably met a hundred or more people that way in the last 15 years out of which I have found about half a dozen who I would classify as friends ans spiritual companions.