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The main topic of this chapter is the issues of creating a community of people on the Czech border. The starting point is a reflection on the processes of forming local social communities, which took place immediately with the arrival of new inhabitants after the expulsion of the Germans. The processes of creating local communities in most of the Czech borderland were not simple and did not always take place optimally. especially if we take into account some historical events that significantly shaped this process, or everyday life on the border. They were mainly influenced by fundamental political changes, such as the year 1948 and the subsequent events associated with the so-called building of the foundations of socialism and the consequences of the Cold War between East and West. Within Czech society, these changes have manifested themselves in all areas of life of local communities. At the border, there is also a significant departure of a large part of the new population back inland. Intensive processes of forming local and cross-border communities take place only after 1989. At the borders of nation states, events take place in everyday life (in "living life"), which lead to overcoming the limitations arising from existing national or local borders. Thus, the belief in the usefulness of mutual cross-border cooperation and interconnection gradually becomes established in people's consciousness. Citizens living within the border area form the basis of civil society, which is gradually being formed on a transnational scale.