Thoughts on Living in a Suburban Chinatown
E-Mail I just received:
Do you ever feel a least bit awkward or intimidated being one of the
few 白人 around many 華人 in your area?
My Answer:
No, I never feel awkward or intimidated.
Frustrations are a different subject!
Top frustrations:
Do you ever feel a least bit awkward or intimidated being one of the
few 白人 around many 華人 in your area?
My Answer:
No, I never feel awkward or intimidated.
Frustrations are a different subject!
Top frustrations:
- Running of red lights.
- Rude people
- Small Parking Spaces
- Shopping Carts being left around in my neighborhood (this finally stopped, I called in 5 shopping carts to have them picked up).
- People who believe they need a Golf Club to protect themselves from my Golden Retriever.
- Being targeted for house burglary because of where we live.
- TV's in restaurants
- Chinese Bakeries!
- Great Chinese Food!
- Chinese Super Markets
- Great School District
- My in-laws are comfortable living here. We live with them. And if they are happy, my wife is happy, which makes me happy.
- We have a nice house my family is happy with
- Nice banks. I do business with a Chinese bank and they know me by name. It's a pleasant experience, instead of being treated like a number.
- It's a great location for our business.
Labels: chinatowns
posted by Ray Ritchey at
9:47 AM
2 Comments:
Yes, I wouldn't really recommend the Nogales/Gale 99 Ranch Market and Mandarin Plaza. My cars, while parked, have been struck by three separate accidents (2 hit-and-runs) there. Quite a record.
My daughter's comment when she was learning to drive last year, was driving in the 99 Market parking lot, was if you can drive here, you can drive anywhere. I have not had any accidents here, luckily. I had a hit and run in Diamond Bar 5 years ago.
Another learning experience, where I expected the person to pull over after they hit me, and they kept on going.
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