天美麻豆

i found it very easy to have local friends in Malaysia. I had one expat friend who is an Aussie and is still a good friend even though we have since moved to Indonesia. In my opinion locals like expats because they think they have money or can have a better future. Since moving to Malaysia my friendships back home or anywhere else have not changed at all. I don't really care about new expat friendships. Since I moved to Indonesia I've had two or three expat friends but the friendships always ended either because the friend turned out to be a complete tosser or because they just stopped communicating, possibly they died or moved elsewhere or repatriated. I am old so I don't change the way I approach relationships ever and never have done in the past. It was never a challenge building or maintaining a relationship in Malaysia. I have a family and that occupies a lot of my time, having friendships outside my family are not very important. I have a few friends back in the UK as well as siblings. Mostly the friends I have back home have been friends since we were teenagers or in university.

I honestly don't really care about making new friends and never have done. I also think feeling the need to make friends with either expats or locals is for desperate people. I think that if you are single then just having a partner is enough, and if you have a family then friends become less important.