I moved from the US to Scotland. My social life looks much different here.

• I moved from the US to the UK, and there have been a few surprising changes to my social life.
• Drinking in pubs is a bigger part of my day in the UK than it was in the US.
• Making close friends in Scotland has been a slower process than I was used to in the US. 

In 2017, I moved from the East Coast of the US to the UK and promptly met my Scottish husband.

Moving abroad presented many challenges, not least of which was navigating the particular foibles and intricacies of Scottish social culture.

Here are the biggest differences I’ve found between socializing in the US and the UK.