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Maybe its just reading people complain about California on the internet, but given how unfriendly California is to middle class people, it by far has the largest growing Asian American population across all groups in the United States.
Given the tax burdens, cost of living, and relatively high median incomes of Asian Americans in general, why would they prefer California over say, Texas, Florida, or even Washington State that has no state income tax and is also on the West Coast?
Even more conservative Asian American groups like the Vietnamese are growing in raw numbers faster in California than in Texas, which I found to be surprising.
Maybe proximity is a factor? Taking a boat from Asia you get to the West coast first.
Mexicans cross the border and they are in California, Arizona and Texas so this States have higher numbers of Mexicans.
Florida dips into the Caribbean and is closest to south America so many end up in Florida.
Europeans flocked to the North East US cause that's where the boats first stopped.
Maybe that's part of it, but definitely not the case for Indian Americans. But Oregon and Washington are also close to Asia, and not as many end up there despite a better COL situation and much better tax situation. The comparison between somewhere like Vancouver, BC and Seattle is night and day.
Due to their Eastern culture, Asians in general are balanced and stress-free. They don't react and fume over matters like is common in the west. It's more about using their brains than their emotions. It's not polite and acceptable to complain and gripe. They solve matters without fuss. We could learn a lot from them.
Asian people usually have higher incomes. And they don't mind living in multi-generational households, which helps cut down on COL. Plus there's been an Asian presence on the West Coast for forever now.
Plus I imagine COL in places like South Korea, Hong Kong, and all of those major Asian cities/countries are quite high now. Maybe the west coast of the US seems cheap to them.
Due to their Eastern culture, Asians in general are balanced and stress-free. They don't react and fume over matters like is common in the west. It's more about using their brains than their emotions. It's not polite and acceptable to complain and gripe. They solve matters without fuss. We could learn a lot from them.
I'm half Asian sometimes I don't some Asians speak up enough. Another complaint I have is some Asians tend to stick to their own as far as public interactions and treat other ethnicities in a condescending manner. So it's a two-way street in my eyes.
Back on topic, as others have, their have enclaves of Asian communities since the gold rush. Though it was mostly Chinese, it instills confidence in other Asians to make it here.
In California, it has to do with the historical communities that have migrated from Asia. Asians have been going to California for so long, its just piled up so much over the generations.
In the modern world its more complex then that. Ethnicity's tend to zero in on cities and then chain migration ensues (where you have family members and friends move in for generations). Many of these cities are outside the West Coast or North East. Atlanta has become a big target for Koreans, Dallas for Indians, and Houston for Vietnamese (though the later is older than the former two).
People go where they have family, friends, and/or jobs.
In California, it has to do with the historical communities that have migrated from Asia. Asians have been going to California for so long, its just piled up so much over the generations.
In the modern world its more complex then that. Ethnicity's tend to zero in on cities and then chain migration ensues (where you have family members and friends move in for generations). Many of these cities are outside the West Coast or North East. Atlanta has become a big target for Koreans, Dallas for Indians, and Houston for Vietnamese (though the later is older than the former two).
People go where they have family, friends, and/or jobs.
Isn't the Vietnamese community in Houston as old as the ones in California? I'm surprised that the community in Houston is smaller than both the LA (mostly in Orange County) and Bay Area (mostly San Jose) given the huge political differences (Vietnamese trend toward voting Republican) and similar age of the communities and just the general trend of people moving from California to Texas.
It's most likely a historical thing and just the relative proximity that will answer this question though.
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Not everyone's goal in life is to find the cheapest cost of living....
Mine certainly isn't. I'm California bound in the next few years and cost to rent an apartment isn't my top concern
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