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Are there any rural small towns in Catskills/Upstate which are ethnically diverse (I'm of Asian Indian background)? Trees/Nature are great but I wouldn't want to live an a homogenous area where I get stares. Thanks for any suggestions.
Are there any rural small towns in Catskills/Upstate which are ethnically diverse (I'm of Asian Indian background)? Trees/Nature are great but I wouldn't want to live an a homogenous area where I get stares. Thanks for any suggestions.
I'm not sure of communities in the Catskills, but there may be others in Upstate that may fit. New Paltz may work: New Paltz, NY Population and Races
There are also some suburbs that could work in Upstate like Menands just north of Albany or Brighton, a suburb adjacent to Rochester's SE Quarter: Menands, NY Population and Races
Brighton is a good suggestion. You'd be fine in Ithaca and New Paltz, and you wouldn't attract stares in Red Hook either due to the presence of both Bard College and the Unification Theological Seminarty. Stick to the college towns and you should be OK.
Monticello is diverse, but it's not a desirable place to live. Ellenville, Liberty, Livingston Manor and Roscoe are less diverse. Why the Catskills?
Fallsburg is another one that comes to mind in the Catskills.
There are some small towns in Wayne County between Lake Ontario and the Finger Lakes that could work. Same with some towns in Orleans County as well. There's also some small towns near Fort Drum in the Watertown area. Oneonta in the Foothills of the Catskills would be fine. Plattsburgh on Lake Champlain and minutes from the Adirondacks would be fine.
I think the OP may have more options than they realize.
I don't think you will get any stares as most people in the Catskills value their privacy and keep to themselves. However, many of the Catskill hamlets are disproportionately white. The larger villages like Monticello and Liberty in Sullivan County have more diversity.
Sullivan County has a number of yoga ashrams in the Fallsburg area. I am not assuming that you would be interested in that, but Indian people sometimes come to the ashrams to visit so the people are accustomed to seeing Indian people. The Fallsburg area has a large Hassidic Jewish population in the summer time. The Hassidim pretty much keep to themselves though you will often see them at Home Depot and the supermarket in Monticello. Nobody is surprised to see them there.
I live about 10 miles from Fallsburg. I am curious as to what brings you to the Catskills if you don't mind sharing.
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