Re: New town, new friends, new life.
Nurturing a friendship also takes time as other things in life. You cannot expect to be good friend of someone in couple of meetings. If she does not come to your home uninvited , you could call her and go there on a regular basis.
For example during the downtime when the kids are off to school and your husband is at work you could make some snack and go to her home and enjoy snack and each others company.
You can ask her to help her out with her community activities and share her burden of those community responsibilities.
You can ask her to pray zuhar prayer together.
I am sure she is as hungry for a good friendship as you are , if this does not workout, keep looking there is plenty of fish in this pond.
See starting and nurturing a good friendship is as easy as that.