Have you noticed that if you go with a few people to a distant place to for instance play a team sport .There is always someone in your team who knows a player in the opposition and starts to shout greetings to them .Like saying ,you others don’t know anyone here but I do . If he meets people in his own area he would not get on like that would he . Bet you don’t know what I’m on about but try just to humour me .
no I usually find when I go to places far away,
that it is full of strangers
I mean in Cairo there isnt anyone I would recognise
( altho I could do a passable "hullo me old sarn, what you doin' here then?" in Arabic - and he would say sommit like " I live here" )