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Hannah ist auch am Start. Und guckt berechtigterweise auch eher sauer...

Well, the figure below clarifies that it does play a very important role how long somebody lives in C, but it is moderated through daily interactions. If someone never speaks to anyone, the longer she lives in the area, the less she feels like she belongs.

If residents communicate with unknown others, living there for all those years enhances belonging, strengthened by the chit-chat in streets/squares.
However, in other neighbourhood settings, the relationship does not work the same way.

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We find that practical neighbourhood use (e.g. if people used sport, leisure, counselling or other facilities locally) and public familiarity (which we measured by frequency of talking with strangers in one’s neighbourhood and the frequency of running into people whom one knew from someplace else) influence the relationship, depending on the local context.

We first show that Practical neighbourhood use SOMETIMES matters for belonging, but it does differently on the neighbourhood setting.

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In line with most assumptions, we find that (overall, on average) neighbourhood belonging increases by length of residence in a neighbourhood.

In all neighbourhood contexts, the statement is true (although to a different extent) and more years of residence go hand in hand with more belonging to the neighbourhood – if we specify a simple linear relationship between both.

However, the theoretical link between both is more complex in reality than a linear relationship suggests.

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