In the stranger, distance means the near one is far and vice versa.

Evidence

The unity of nearness and remoteness involved in every human relation is organized, in the phenomenon of the stranger, in a way which may be most briefly formulated by saying that in the relationship to him, distance means that he, who is close by, is far, and strangeness means that he, who also is far, is actually near. — Georg Simmel, The Sociology of Georg Simmel, 9543