[Ben K]

I'm in the same boat and I agree with you.

Strangely, when I'm travelling or visiting someplace I'm almost totally different when out and happy to talk to randoms. But when I'm in my home town, I'm painfully shy and unable to talk to people, especially women when out.

I dont mind the embarassment so much, it's more the sense of expectation that I think people may have of me because it's my home town and I will have been seen around fairly often. A stupid self-fulfilling prophecy of thinking I can't talk to women and then screwing it up when the opportunity arises. A mate of mine just caught single so we're out fairly often and he's helping bring me out of my shell. Anyway, good luck.

Anyway, as for introversion/extro generally, I'm happy both ways. Would probably say I'm happier when I'm being extroverted but that probably corresponds to the social aspect of having a laugh and being stupid. It does get tiring though.