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It is believed that city offers more chances of employment and greater range of jobs available. But nowadays the situation looks much differently and the increasing number of those who receive unemployment benefit and social assistance seems to contradict the statement. Those who move to the city often argue that this place gives them anonymity which they associate with the sense of freedom and protection from people's inquisitiveness. But the same anonymity later leaves just loneliness. It often happens that city-dwellers, cramped in blocks of flats, do not even know their neighbours and in an emergency they cannot rely on them. Besides, it is difficult for them to strike up the friendship or close acquaintance.