I'm not a Yank, and referencing your other comment in this thread about the commute, I'm a ~10 minute bike ride from my office.
I just don't care about my colleagues in a friendship context. I only interact with them because I have to professionally, but from my last 4 companies I haven't made a single lasting friendship. Because, again, I have a lot of actual friends who I'd much rather see than the random people from my office.
That: "Coworkers are not my friends, and the fake socialization I'm forced to put up with there is exhausting" doesn’t exist where I live.