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Joseph
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ftresi, it is sadly true that there’s a tznius problem even in frummer neighborhoods such as Boro Park and Flatbush. But that ignores the also sad reality that the extent of the problem is greater the more MO the neighborhood is. In Teaneck and the Five Towns you can easily find people who allegedly identify as Orthodox yet dress little differently than secular America. Pritzus by any definition. Denying that is burying one’s head in the sand. As you go to more Yeshivish neighborhoods like Flatbush, Monsey, Boro Park and Lakewood (yes, in that order) the problem becomes less noticable, comparably, even though it definitely still exists. And once you start getting to the Chasidish neighborhoods such as Williamsburg, New Square and Kiryas Yoel, you get to the point where the problem is really tiny. (Speaking, obviously, of the frum community, not the non-Orthodox/gentiles.)