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How to rebuild community when longtime residents and newcomers can't connect

Our neighborhood used to feel like a real community but over the last few years it's become this weird mix of old-timers who resent all the changes and newcomers who don't seem interested in anything that was here before. The few of us who've been trying to bridge things are getting exhausted and starting to turn on each other.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The weight of being cultural translators in a fracturing community is creating resentment among the very people trying to hold it together.

Ideas that help explain it
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