Mostly-Asian towns or cities (better, largest, America, bigger)

[Smtchll]

what kind of Asian? It's a broad category. According to the American definition of Asian, it can be broken down into 3 groups. East Asia (Korea, Japan, China), Southeast Asia (Vietnam, Cambodian, Philippines, Thailand, and many more), and South Asia (India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and others) These groups arent exactly similar. For instance, if you were an East Asian living in a mostly South Asian neighborhood, you'd probably feel out of place. There's a huge cultural difference.

[RmafAlex]

In New Orleans, Village de L'Est in New Orleans East has a large Vietnamese population.

[stiga9]

Originally Posted by Crazy Virgo Child

We need more Vietnamese in Atlanta; Vietnamese food is the best!!!!!!
Pho #1 in Atlanta is my fav place to eat. Not to mention Vietnamese women have a lil extra meat in the back if you catch my drift!!!! Good food pretty women, cant go wrong

i wish my GF would have a lil more meat in the back! LOL

[stiga9]

Originally Posted by jtur88

Consider emigrating to Canada. Much larger Asian populations, and all supermarkets well-stocked with Asian items. And free health care, and only half as many fat people and very low crime rates.

The entire city and metro of Toronto/Vancouver is basically Asian, NOT in enclaves, so you would feel like you're part of the city, not just a chinatown. Much like The SF Bay area. They are just kinda spread out throughout the metro. I feel like in NYC, there are tons of asians but they're isolated in certain areas (lower manhattan, sunset park brooklyn, flushing queens, ft. lee NJ) and not spread out like toronto/vancouver/SF bay area.


Toronto in my eyes is very clean, with no ghettos. The subway/public transportation system is the second best, most used in north America (next to NYC of course), and it is super clean, efficient, no graffiti, filled with NON crazy people, just the regular working class and bunch of chinese people, and does not smell like urine in the summer. If it werent for the cold wether, this would be my ideal place to live. Everywhere you walk there are nice looking people, and you never have to worry about being scared walking downtown 3am in the morning like you do in most cities.

Take all subway lines in toronto/the GO train/street cars, and you'll see a good amount of Asians in each system.
Take the subway 6 line in Harlem NY, and its all hispanics and african americans. Take the subway 7 in queens and its all Asians. Yes NY is super diverse, but since your asking about asians, Toronto/vancouver has asians in every corner. similar to new orleans that has mainly african americans.

Dallas/houston/DC/Hotlanta have tons of Asians, but are kinda isoloted like NYC in my eyes.

I'd like to feel that asians are part of the city, not "go to bellaire in Houston if you want to be near the asian community" i prefer: "go live anywhere in the GTA (greater toronto area) if you want to live in an asian city"

[blkgiraffe]

Originally Posted by stiga9

The entire city and metro of Toronto/Vancouver is basically Asian, NOT in enclaves, so you would feel like you're part of the city, not just a chinatown. Much like The SF Bay area. They are just kinda spread out throughout the metro. I feel like in NYC, there are tons of asians but they're isolated in certain areas (lower manhattan, sunset park brooklyn, flushing queens, ft. lee NJ) and not spread out like toronto/vancouver/SF bay area.


Toronto in my eyes is very clean, with no ghettos. The subway/public transportation system is the second best, most used in north America (next to NYC of course), and it is super clean, efficient, no graffiti, filled with NON crazy people, just the regular working class and bunch of chinese people, and does not smell like urine in the summer. If it werent for the cold wether, this would be my ideal place to live. Everywhere you walk there are nice looking people, and you never have to worry about being scared walking downtown 3am in the morning like you do in most cities.

Take all subway lines in toronto/the GO train/street cars, and you'll see a good amount of Asians in each system.
Take the subway 6 line in Harlem NY, and its all hispanics and african americans. Take the subway 7 in queens and its all Asians. Yes NY is super diverse, but since your asking about asians, Toronto/vancouver has asians in every corner. similar to new orleans that has mainly african americans.

Dallas/houston/DC/Hotlanta have tons of Asians, but are kinda isoloted like NYC in my eyes.

I'd like to feel that asians are part of the city, not "go to bellaire in Houston if you want to be near the asian community" i prefer: "go live anywhere in the GTA (greater toronto area) if you want to live in an asian city"

Actually Houston's asians are very intergrated with other races within the city ,but you also have Bellaire Blvd for Chinatown or around downtown.

[stiga9]

Originally Posted by jluke65780

Actually Houston's asians are very intergrated with other races within the city ,but you also have Bellaire Blvd for Chinatown or around downtown.

Yes don't get me wrong here, Houston has LOTS of Asians spread out also, but if you were to compare the two, Toronto has significantly more. Walk around Toronto and you notice that there are significantly large amounts of Asians everywhere. The single most dominant ethnic race in Toronto.

In Houston, you see lots of Mexicans (the single most dominant ethnic race in Houston), Indians, east Asians, and african americans mixed as a whole.
You would rarely find a single hispanic person in Toronto, unless they are mixed with Philippino, which is,..Asian. The city of Toronto has about 7 percent blacks whereas Houston has 25 percent blacks.

I think H-town has about 5 percent Asians as a whole, whereas Toronto is much like San Francisco, which Has about 30 percent of their people Asian.

The 5 biggest city suburbs surrounding Toronto are: cities like Markham (has Pacific mall, biggest asian mall in North america) that have 55% Asian, Mississauga has 35% asian , Richmond Hill has 80% Asian, Brampton have 38%, and Pickering has 14%.
Back in the day, people use to call Toronto Little Hong Kong.

In H-town, you have to go into ENCLAVES to find major Asian Areas (sugarland, bellaire, chinatown, galleria mall lol, so many asians there)

Or just Wikipedia it to see.

I use to live in Houston, and went to college in Toronto. My first impression was, wow, its so clean up here! i am however moving to back to Texas or Cali because of family, and oh yeah, i gotta play tennis all the time. Can't do that in a winter in Canada! (unless you can afford indoor tennis all winter long)

[Rwarky]

Originally Posted by leaana

I am very dismayed, depressed and disheartened that anywhere that has a higher asian population is extremely expensive. I am tired of living with prejudice and racism and not having the conveniences that others have. I am tired of having to go to hole in the wall ethnic grocers as if I'm unimportant. I am tired and lonely of living in areas where the only asians you only see are when you go into a takeout or restaurant, where you are just mostly sol in your community or city. I am tired of the riffraff that gets so represented in this country and anywhere that's affordable is either very racist and backwards or it's full of bad neighbors who blare music and/or act like animals or are just painfully ignorant.

I have checked out the housing and rental prices in los angeles and new york. It is too expensive. I don't understand how anyone would pay those kinds of outrageous prices for usually shoddy, ugly or cramped accomodations.

I currently reside in the tampa/st petersburg area and it's mostly caucasians, hispanics and african-americans, not many asians and not many asian things period and i do not like tampa much at all. Clearwater is relatively nice but still too bland in culture and i would pay the slightly higher prices but there is nothinig geared toward asians or koreans here. There is no real decent ethnic grocery store that is well-stocked and definitely no large well-known asian supermarket chains. I have even searched the whole state.

Atlanta has quite a few but i would never want to live there as it's just not a city that appeals to me at all. The traffic is horrendous, it's congested and still way too southern in the negative sense to me.

If only new york's chinatown was actually decently affordable as well, this country wouldn't seem so crazy to me! but to get a nice place you can call home would cost me and arm and a leg so i couldn't even enjoy it!

i'm screwed if i do and screwed if i don't! where is a place that has what i'm looking for and is progressive and still reasonally priced? any suggestions and insights would be appreciated.

sorry if i sounded too negative, just being honest about my feelings.

Have you tried looking into Portland, Oregon; Philadelphia; or the Hampton Roads area in Virginia?

[Rwarky]

Originally Posted by Smtchll

what kind of Asian? It's a broad category. According to the American definition of Asian, it can be broken down into 3 groups. East Asia (Korea, Japan, China), Southeast Asia (Vietnam, Cambodian, Philippines, Thailand, and many more), and South Asia (India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and others) These groups arent exactly similar. For instance, if you were an East Asian living in a mostly South Asian neighborhood, you'd probably feel out of place. There's a huge cultural difference.

Actually, there is a fourth category, west Asians.

[leaana]

i'd like to consider canada but i know emigration requires a lot of red tape. can you still drive to canada without a passport?

the only problem with emigrating is my husband owes back child support and can't get a passport even though he pays every month. the amount isn't even realistic considering he was unemployed for awhile and was recovering from an injury and his pay changed several times. the owed amount reflects his highest salary at one point which was only for a short time. bottomline, he can't get a passport and that's the only thing keeping me from going wherever i want.

any creative suggestions welcomed. i looked at even southeast countries such as malaysia but again, passport problems. in america, i would need to be around northeast asian communities rather than southeast, preferably korean and japanese but chinese would do if i had no other choices.

as for the united states, there is something about this place that feels oppressive in a way i don't like, culturally. it's something of a mix of cultural ignorance, lack of sophistication and racism that is really unnattractive and nauseating to live around!

i heard even nyc is an anti-asian city from some inside experiences from some people. some say seattle is a asian friendly city but i have to take all these with a grain of salt.

i would love to live in a city like toronto, from what it sounds like, it seems like a real normal city. as in just clean and less ghetto, asians a part of the community, less racial hangups, more progressive (not just in lip service).

with all the money and hype about america and americans, it's really heinously and shockingly debase and culturally a laughingstock. it calls itself a melting pot but i've had too many jeeringly inhumane prejudiced problems since i was a child here. i have developed a growing resentment of this place which i tried to embrace as my home. it's easy to become anti-american when you see the truth of this place once you get here.

i find america quite puzzling, i still can't figure it out. i've been to many places around the world already and america and americans seem really downright base people. i don't know if it's something in the water or what the hell is going on but culturally people in other less developed countries are often more human and astute than americans. it's even hard to communicate with americans regardless of race, they are incredibly stupid and/or seem perverted in their thinking or makeup or really evil-hearted and racist. if you are actually normal, they think you are a freak. you just want to slap them straight, they can get on your nerves that badly. this place is really going beyond getting on my nerves and aggravation to hostility, anger and hatred. americans are racist in a manner and way that's more evil than i've found in other cultures. it's more jeering, condescending and taunting and ugly. it's not simply a matter of wanting to keep out those who change your culture or way of life. a lot of people try to equate american racism or prejudice to other places but it's not of the same quality. american racists are really ugly and unusually mean-hearted about it. in other countries, i didn't experience it as to that level of cruelty or lasciviousness, inhumane views and ego-infused. in other countries, it was mostly indifference and people who mind their own business if they don't like you, just like how i react, which is more normal!!! americans are culturally filthy, unrefined and primitive regardless of their socio-economic position, i am convinced!

america is like some freak show with freaks that think they are normal? *shudder*

[leaana]

Originally Posted by Rwarky

Have you tried looking into Portland, Oregon; Philadelphia; or the Hampton Roads area in Virginia?

i don't know about the last two but portland, no way. i was up there for two weeks when i was on my way to las vegas.

it was really snotty and anal. and a lot of racist white people. absolutely not.

even if it wasn't for the general atmosphere of passive-aggressive racism, i don't like it anyways. boring