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How economic mobility can create social isolation

I got a better job and moved to a nicer area but I don't know how to act around my new neighbors and I miss being somewhere where everyone understood struggle.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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You're experiencing the unexpected loneliness that can accompany upward mobility when it separates you from your community of origin.

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“Where Are You with Poverty and identity?”

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