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1. When the neighbors see you for the first time:
2. Neighbors will wonder how you can afford your home and new acquaintances may assume you're bougie.
3. You might get mistaken for the "help".
4. Pronouncing your children's name will be a struggle for some suburbanites.
5. What your neighbors think you're like:
6. What you're actually like:
7. Some neighbors might assume you're foreign.
8. People will think you've gone "the Carlton" route.
9. When you finally see others like you around town:
10. Walking into the PTA meetings like:
11. What the teacher hears when you ask to speak with them:
12. How you sometimes feel at neighborhood parties:
13. PTA moms wanting you to chair dance committees because "you have so much rhythm!"
14. Being the ONLY one in the neighborhood and becoming "the representative" for ALL by default.
15. When you decide to have a party and not tell your neighbors in advance someone will call the cops.
16. More urban family will worry your kids won't have black friends.
17. There might be an assumption you know about smoking weed.
18. And police may be confused when they see you in the neighborhood.
19. When yet another "unrest" makes headlines and you look to your friends for support and understanding:
20. What your new neighborhood friends expect when you invite them for a night out with your homegirls:
21. What you expect when they invite YOU out for a night:
22. But when you finally find a group you mesh well with it's like:
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