Family and Friends Living Nearby, Neighborhood Satisfaction, and Residential Mobility

This study draws on panel data from the Los Angeles Family and Neighborhood Survey ( N = 1,128) to examine whether how family friends living close-by are associated with individuals’ interneighborhood residential mobility. Additional analyses tap into why proportion of nearby kin linked their The results suggest that perceptions neighborhood patterned by or not they have family—and a lesser extent friends—who live locally. absence is leaving neighborhood, but direct effects do hold for friends. However, role does become important in ties. also indicate having moderates relationship between satisfaction moving away.