It's a typical aspect of moving away from anywhere you considered home. I have a small group of friends I adore in my new home, but I find myself missing the people I left behind. I miss the convenience of just calling them up and doing something. I an still call them up, for sure, but there's something to be said about face-to-face interaction.
When you're an introvert anyway, who doesn't make friends easily -- most of my friends made the first "advance" -- it's easy to become isolated. I try to leave my house more, get out of my comfort zone and interact. It helps, but the root of loneliness isn't that there aren't people. With 7 billion humans on the planet there are plenty of people. It's the lack of contact with people who are familiar, who are comfortable and who you know and who know you. Building more of those relationships -- because it is building, it's a construction of time and talk -- is not easily done for everyone. And because it does take time, there is this purgatorial period.
For myself, I will explore, I will interact, I will meet new people and keep in contact with those I left behind.
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