Jalar Tin, 40, also moved here three years ago after nine years in a refugee camp and two in Kansas. "I'm getting used to it," he says of life in this city of 254,000. "It was hard in the beginning."
New Census data show that Allen County, where
Fort Wayne is the county seat, grew 7.1% from 2000 to 2010, and the Asian population doubled from 4,652 to 9,721. Estimates of the number of Burmese living here range from 4,000 to 9,000.
Burmese try to adapt to America's bigger 'village' - USATODAY.com
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