I got married almost 4 years ago, & moved into the house in Midwood, where my husband had been living for quite a while. It was very obvious to the neighbors that a woman was now in the house, even if they never saw me, as the outside was now kept orderly in a way that it had not been until then. I live on a block with only frum people. One neighbor sent over a child with a welcoming basket, & invited us for Shabbos. Until now, after all this time, that one neighbor is the only one who acnwledges my existance. I have sent Shaloch Manos to the others, but am still ignored. And we are at the same level of frumkeit as the whole group. The kippa seruga is not the reason – people in Brooklyn have a lot to learn about menchlichkeit. I had to spend many Shabbosim & Yom Tovim in Borough Park near Maimonides. When I would pass the local ladies & wish them a Gut Shabbos or Gut YomTov, they would look at me oddly, & not respond.
Though I still make an effort to be warm & friendly & welcoming, it doesn’t help when you feel that you are the “odd man out”,
P.S. – I am from Toronto, where EVERYONE welcomed new neighbors, & was friendly & warm to all – old friends or new acquaintances.