How did you find your artist?

I don't know if everyone is the same as me, but for my first tattoo I basically googled a bunch of shops near me, went through their artist profiles and found someone whose style I liked. Got my first piece done, and while I was happy with it, in retrospect I ought to have chosen someone who ALSO knew the subject matter I liked.

Eventually discovered someone on social who did awesome warhammer tattoos and is generally also a great artist. So he's now "my guy" and I'll drive the 2hrs to go to him because his work is dope and I'm no longer shopping around.

So I'm wondering if that's a common journey, or are most people tattoo nomads, collecting art from loads of artists, or do you find someone who gels and stick with them. I'm still relatively new to tattoos, with just one sleeve done over the last year (and still inner bicep to do on that), so generally curious about people's experiences.