It's interesting. We have made some more friends here, but often the people are people we meet in LA (even if they aren't from LA). We had lunch the other day with a guy who left LA right before us (Paul K) and went to San Francisco. He ended up San Francisco -> Des Moines -> New York. We have re-meet a bunch of other people who were in LA for a while.
I totally see why ex-Pats (living in a foreign country for work) hang out together. You can laugh at the same things and enjoy the same things about the new city.
It's been fun and we have been haning out with more people