Smaller West Coast towns with large East Asian-American populations? (neighborhoods, university)

[ricky1993]

Hey all!

I'm an Asian American (Japanese) looking to move to the West Coast to find larger communities of East Asian-Americans. I have found over a few trips that Asian-Americans tended to be more assimilated on the West Coast (which is how I identify myself), but I don't want to move to the larger cities (LA, SF, Seattle).

What I am looking for is maybe a town/small city outside of these metropolises that have a large concentration of East Asian-Americans, ideally more assimilated populations.

Any leads?

Thank you!

[BurnInTheMil]

Originally Posted by ricky1993

Hey all!

I'm an Asian American (Japanese) looking to move to the West Coast to find larger communities of East Asian-Americans. I have found over a few trips that Asian-Americans tended to be more assimilated on the West Coast (which is how I identify myself), but I don't want to move to the larger cities (LA, SF, Seattle).

What I am looking for is maybe a town/small city outside of these metropolises that have a large concentration of East Asian-Americans, ideally more assimilated populations.

Any leads?

Thank you!

The Entire Bay Area has pockets & towns filled with Asians. It’d be hard to pick a town, that didn’t.

[ragnarkar]

Smaller college towns will usually have a lot of Asians.. try Davis, Chico, Merced, etc.

[NoMoreSnowForMe]

Originally Posted by Greg10556

The Entire Bay Area has pockets & towns filled with Asians. It’d be hard to pick a town, that didn’t.

Agree. There's a Japantown in downtown San Jose, too.

[Jay F]

Fresno has a large Asian population. One of my best friends is a Japanese-American who lives in Fresno.

[BurnInTheMil]

Originally Posted by Jay F

Fresno has a large Asian population. One of my best friends is a Japanese-American who lives in Fresno.

Fresno also sucks

[ricky1993]

Thank you for the replies!

Hadn't thought of the smaller college towns, but I'm not sure how I'd feel living in one post-college...

I'll look more into Fresno and San Jose.

[kyle19125]

Fullerton in Southern California is around 25% Asian, and a nice smaller city of 135K with a large university as well.

https://www.cityoffullerton.com/visitors/default.asp

[Vincent_Adultman]

Originally Posted by Jay F

Fresno has a large Asian population. One of my best friends is a Japanese-American who lives in Fresno.

You'd really have to stretch your definition of "smaller" to include Fresno or San Jose in this discussion.

[NoMoreSnowForMe]

Originally Posted by Vincent_Adultman

You'd really have to stretch your definition of "smaller" to include Fresno or San Jose in this discussion.

Good point. San Jose is so big because it just kept annexing towns and suburbs around it forever. So, it's really more like a bunch of different smaller towns or neighborhoods, you'd call them now. You can live your life never seeing most of the "city."