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ASIAN AMERICAN DEMOGRAPHICS
ASIAN AMERICAN DEMOGRAPHICS
Parsing Asian America
An insider looks at the baffling differences and uncanny similarities among five key Asian American groups.
Honolulu: AA Paradise?
Boston: AA Intellectual Mecca?
D.C. Area: Home of AA Conservatism?
San Jose: The AA Heartland?
Orange County: Realization of the AA Dream?
Chicago: Most-Underrated AA City?
Seattle: Most AA-Friendly City?
Poll: Asian Life in the Los Angeles Area
Poll: Asian Life in the San Francisco Bay Area
Poll: Asian Life in the New York City Area
Poll: Asian Life in the Houston Area
50% of Young Asian Americans Earn Bachelors Degree
Nguyen, Kim Top AA Surnames
Asian Households Most Married
Asian Immigration Declines
Asians Top Household Incomes
Where the Asians Aren't
Top 10 Asian-Populated States
Top 15 Asian Population Centers
Asian California 2000
Asians are becoming the Golden State's new establishment.
Asian Dixie
Wide open opportunities draw Asians to help build the New South.
Staying Single
Career ambitions keep Asian professionals waiting into their late 30s.
Asian Paris
Asians enjoy a different reception in Paris.
Asian Canada
Asian immigrant energy is turning a green and promising land into the next California.
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WHAT YOU SAY
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Wednesday, Jan 22, 2025, 04:38:53 AM)
San Diego living is what its all about. I'm glad i'm not in Houston.
Where in San Diego did you go?!?! Santee?!?!
The San Diego region is so diverse that it can rank up with about any city in the United States, H-town included.
Houston does have a overall larger population than San Diego (1.9 to 1.2 million respectively) and they do have an established Little Saigon and chinatown. But the Asian community in San Diego (14%) have a much larger presense than the largest city in Texas (5%.)
SD definately have the larger Filipino population. Huge Filipino communities are located both the north and south regions in city.
Houston is supposely the "central"
Vietnamese community in all of the Mid-west. But San Diego and Houston's Viet numbers are almost identical, and San Diego is only 5th on that list of California cities. True, San Diego does not have an "official" Little Saigon, but thousands of Vietnamese residents and hundreds of businesses are located along El Cahon (east), Convoy (central), and Mira Mesa (north). Let me also note that these boulevards are 3 of the busiest streets in San Diego, period.
You looking for pho?!?! Let's just say that i haven't found a better pho restuarant than one in this city, even in the real Little Saigon (Westminster). Pearl tea....have you ever heard of Convoy? There's like 10 on that strip.
Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Thai
also have well-establish businesses like offices, banks, and eateries serving all kinds of classes throughout the city.
Another point is don't get the idea that North County is an area filled with "rich white people." Latinos make up 33% of all North County residents. You say affluent North County "do not randomly set up checkpoints or sobriety checks." I guess you don't go out much.
....And what do you expect, this is a border town! Be ready to get stopped, searched, whatevers. If you feel violated in any way, SUE!
Hillcrest and Uptown electic?!?! Yeah they are, but they are not even considered the top spots in the region. PB and Mission Beach defines the image of San Diego. Palm trees, great weather, beautiful beaches, roller coasters, restuarants, bars....
You'll see "white rich folks" rolling around in a Benz, but the streets are are also jam-packed with souped up imports, lowriders, and Escalades.
Mission Valley, with its ties to the stadium, draw crowds to this centrally located area, week days and weekends.
Downtown San Diego is a growing, yet already vibrant central business district that can boast is more livelier than its neighbor to the north, Los Angeles. Just wait until the new baseball stadium is finshed in 2 years....
If i want Dim Sum on weekends morning, i know where to go. I feel like "real" italian, Little Italy will have many choices. If i have sum extra cash on me, i'll spend the day in La Jolla. I got the choice of taking my girlfriend to the hills to get a view of the city, a cruise around the harbor, walk on the boardwalk at belmont park....and the list goes on.
Ever spent the day 20 minutes south on the beaches of Rosarito, Mexico???? $25 will fill you up with delicious seafood (lobsters, shrimp, oysters, you name it) and unlimited Corona's and Tequila that knock you out and waking up in a reasonable-priced, beach front hotel. (Let's just say it cost as much as a 1 bed motel room in San Diego city.)
Los Angeles is just up the freeway. Hollywood, Santa Monica, Disneyland, etc.
Snow in San Diego? During winter, its a 30 minute drive to the east....
So go exploring a lil, and you will be glad that you're living the life in San Diego, and not stuck in Houston.
007
Tuesday, May 28, 2002 at 02:09:20 (PDT)
Nice scenery, very strange, paranoid and xenophobic people. It’s kind of like Florida, but with absolutely no character and nothing to do. They could use some Cubans or S.E. Asians there to give them a little character. Who wants to live in a place with middle class to lower middle class people that act like they are really affluent? San Diego is just another stepchild of Los Angeles. Orange County is much better.
Nothing to do in SD but golf (if you are a minority the whites there only want to see you fetching golf balls or carrying clubs), nothing to see but the same old boring lily-white culture celebrated. The mentality reminds me of the Old South back in the good ole’ days where “them colourds” knew their place. Interracial dating with whites, as you can imagine -not very well accepted. In fact, these people have no interest in other cultures at all; it's why they are there –to escape any inkling of multi-culturalism. Similar to Boston, Napa and Marin Counties in Nor. Cal, etc… It’s as interesting and inspiring as plain yogurt.
Even White people from L.A./O.C. look at these people sideways at times because they do some strange stuff in SD e.g.: swingers, missing little kids, the #1 producer of serial murderers, school shooting rampages, affluent white skinhead-like punk gangs, unsolved mass murders of minorities, cult groups, Hail Bob cult mass suicides, and the list goes on…
The best analogy for SD goes like this.
It's like the perfect family on the block with the nice house and white picket fence that never has any problems or bothers anyone, then out of the blue one day they end up killing each other and everyone else around them for some unsolved reason. It is usually swept under the rug by the SD community and forgotten.
At least in places like LA or NY you know what you are up against and nothing is usually hidden only to boil over on some random occasion. SD has some strange people to say the least. On average, it’s a creepy and dangerous place to raise kids, especially if they are not 100% white.
A person who nicknames himself "wordlyman" has no business in SD. Transfer out when you get the opportunity and good luck. As the old saying goes "It's a nice place to visit, but I wouldn't want to live there."
Houston sounds like a good place, maybe you should consider moving back if you enjoyed living there -Good luck.
The Truth re: San Diego, Asians and Latinos
Monday, May 27, 2002 at 13:50:34 (PDT)
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