local residents
People living nearby
Local residents are the people who live in a particular area, especially when distinguished from visitors, officials, or outside interests.
The phrase often appears in news coverage and public discourse: Local residents complained about the noise from the construction site.
Though slightly redundant—residents are by definition local to somewhere—the phrase emphasizes rootedness in a specific community.
- neighborsThose dwelling nearby
- next doorIn the adjacent building
- communityCollective of connected people
- townspeopleMunicipal area inhabitants
- villagersInhabitants of small settlements
community members · homeowners · tenants · citizens · inhabitants · natives · old timers · folk · neighborhood · block · street · front yard · familiar faces · regulars · longtime · roots · belonging · property
- Redundanciestautology, pleonasm, redundancy, redundant phrase, added bonus
- entitiesentity, being, object, thing, item
local residentsoutsiders
Those not belonging
non-residents · foreigners · strangers · out-of-towners · non-natives
local residentstourists
Travelers seeing sights
travelers · transients · passersby · day-trippers · sojourners
local residentsglobal citizens
People identifying worldwide
cosmopolitans · citizens of the world · international community · world travelers · jet-setters
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