Hey! Where Does Everyone Live???

I live in Pearl City, Hawaii. But not for long. Sometime in the next 14 months we will be moving back to the mainland. YAY!!!

Rebecca

Great topic, Cassandra!

I live just north of Orlando, Florida. About an hour drive from Walt Disney World.

--Christina

I am in Chesapeake, VA but, originally from Pearl City, HI!  :D

I thought it would be cool to see how spread out "us" Asian families are. We are everywhere. (LOL)

I live in Kodiak, AK.  Maybe moving next summer back down to the lower 48. 

Back on the ClubMom message board, Cassandra asked about the Asian population in your town.  And I thought that would be a good addition to the current thread of where you live. 

So, what is the Asian population like where you live?

--Christina

Slim to none. Did I mentoin that I was one only Asian in my high school class? (LOL) That should give you a clue about how many there are. There are more in the South part of where I live, but I live up on the north part of Topeka (aka "White Man's Land) LOL!! Anyone else?

maryland

I would have to say that the Asian population where I live is, oh I  don't know, 98%. Can't live in Hawaii without the majority of the population being Asian. Here I am the minority. And most of the time, I feel like it.

Rebecca

Hey, poetinme--whereabouts in Maryland do you live?  We used to live up in Columbia.  Loved going into Baltimore.  Did lots of touristy things in DC the first year we lived there, then pretty much stopped doing that and stuck to the suburbs.  ;-)  I worked in Rockville and then Gaithersburg, but was in sales so I drove all over. 

I thought that where we were in Maryland was pretty cosmopolitan and relatively diverse.  There were lots of Asians around the Universities and Research Centers (like NIH).  And in Columbia there was a big Chinese School and the year we left, they had just gotten the Howard County School Board to add Chinese into the mainstream high school curriculum as an approved foreign language class! 

Now in Orlando, there's sort of an Asian community, with one stretch of road that has Asian groceries, stores, and restaurants.  Outside of that area, though, there's not much.  But there's enough of an Asian population to have a strong Chinese School, and also (I recently found out) Korean, Japanese, Vietnamese, and Tagalog schools in the area)!  In the suburbs where we live, though, Asians are a lot more spread out.  But one thing I've noticed is there's a lot more multicultural/biracial familes (mine included). 

Where I grew up in Michigan (west side of Detroit), though, I was the only Asian in my class through 4th grade.  My parents had to travel far and wide to find a decent Chinese restaurant (most of them were "Chop Suey" places that served dinner rolls with your meal)--and even those were few and far between!  Then we moved to Ann Arbor, a college town, and then in my class there were two Asians, myself and a girl named Monica.  People kept calling us the wrong names, even though she was popular and I wasn't.  Anyhow, there were 3 Asian families in our neighborhood.  Today, though, the area where my parents still have a house is almost like a little mini-Chinatown.  The neighborhood mall houses a Chinese grocery, and Chinese gift shop, Chinese video stores and everything like that!  It's changed a LOT since I last lived there! 

--Christina