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When your community becomes a place you don't recognize

Our neighborhood group chat has become this constant stream of complaints and fear-mongering about crime and 'those people' and my partner and I don't know whether to engage and fight it, leave quietly, or try to redirect it somehow.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

A shared space has shifted in values and two people must decide whether to fight for it, flee from it, or find a third way.

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