Do you have trouble making friends?

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When I was in high school I tended to be quiet and anti-social just because I couldn't be bothered with the social pleasantries involved in being a popular teenaged girl. I did have friends, but it was a small tight knit group of people like myself, and then a larger group of acquaintances. I wasn't disliked or unknown, just most people didn't talk to me unless I talked to them first, and that was pretty rare. When I graduated and moved away from my hometown, I suddenly was able to make friends at the drop of a hat and in the oddest places (like the health food store). I had a HUGE group of friends and stuff to do every night. Now I've moved to a large city and I find I'm in the same rut I was in back in high school. I meet people through work, but those friendships are slightly superficial and usually are strained after they or I get a new job. I've been here for 4 years and have made exactly 2 good friends. There's a handful of acquaintances and people I'd consider friends but I can't really count on any of them in a time of need. Most are people that I have a good time with socially, and don't speak to unless there's a good time to be had. A lot of them are men that I met when I tried online dating -- didn't pan out romantically, but I did meet a lot of cool guys that are fun to go to a club with. I just recently got the idea to put up an ad on Kijiji looking for friends, and then discovered I was leaving the city in the next month to go back home where all my old friends from high school have left for other places. *sigh* How about you? Do you find you have trouble making friends and meeting people?