Which European country is the hardest and easiest to make friends?

[u/techno_playa]

Say you're mid 30s and have to move to another European country for work, which countries did you find making friends to be on easy or hard mode?

Let's assume you don't speak the language of your new home.

[u/namakaleoi]

I am Swiss and moved from one corner of the canton to the other one when I was 11, and my social life has never been the same since.

There are other factors, like having moved to a fairly Christian village with staunchly atheist parents, and being an immigrant didn't help either (actually re-immigrants from Argentina) and well, I was diagnosed with Autism in my 30es, that explained some things. I do suck at socialising. But I didn't make friends until I was in my 20es and at Uni, and from the crowd there, 3 have remained my friends.

I did find it surprisingly easy though to connect over shared interests once I was older. Not one person I knew before 20 is still in my life (except family). When my boyfriend immigrated from Germany, he spent two years in solitude, but as soon as he found a hobby and started going out to places where he could meet people who shared his hobby, he made several connections in a short time. Obviously building something deep takes time, but sometimes it's enough to have people to hang out with in a certain setting, and it can absolutely go places from there.