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When mobility creates fractures within communities of origin

My brother stayed in our neighborhood and calls me sellout for moving to the suburbs, but I wanted my kids to have good schools and I do not know if I sold out or just survived.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Geographic and economic mobility can strain family relationships when survival strategies appear to abandon collective struggle for individual advancement.

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