A street’s new popularity can make its oldest residents feel like visitors.

When a place becomes desirable, the change arrives as improvement and lands as displacement. The shops that knew your name close, the prices assume a different income, and the people who kept the street going for decades find themselves explaining that they live there. Nothing has been taken by force; the sense of belonging simply stops being returned.

If you have moved somewhere lately, spend some of your money and attention on what was already there. Asking the people who have been there longest what has changed is a small courtesy and usually a better guide to the area than anything you will read.