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Can be fun, can be tedious, can be galling. Very much depends on the DM... and the players.
I didn't play for years now. Well once I gathered some friends for a session but dun goofed because didn't prepare properly. Sometimes I got away with much improvisation but not then (I think I mentioned before I didn't play that much). Still we had a good laugh or too, didn't take the thing too seriously it wasn't about that.
I've a pal who plays regularly. Or played regularly in recent times, the group campaigned together for years but they started to annoy each other, some wild quarrel went down. A dude or two left the group, then they searched for at least one new player/DM.

There should be a bunch of players not too far from you. I'm not sure how could you find them. We have Hungarian websites about role playing games with forums. Probably I would ask there if I wanted to find players, make a thread about finding a party or something. Tho I have acquaintances who have acquaintances so maybe through them I could find something.