Have you ever moved to a place where people were really awful to newcomers?

Have you ever moved to a place where people were really awful to newcomers?
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The city in which I live, has a reputation for being unfriendly in the sense that, if you do not belong to a certain ‘group’, it is hard to get into a group. I never experienced this, as I always had friends and was always welcomed to different groups of people.
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