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Why economic mobility can feel like betrayal of place

I finally have enough money to move out of my dangerous neighborhood, but leaving feels like abandoning the community that raised me.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Geographic mobility enabled by wealth forces choices between personal safety and community loyalty.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Identity and money — what wealth does to selfhood?”

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