Best Ex-Pat area for full time residency
We are considering moving out of the US to experience another part of the world. We have thought of Mexico, Costa Rico, Belize, Panama each one has plusses and minuses. When reading the blogs it seems...
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People will assimilate to their own cultural neighborhoods.
My lineage is Polish and when my grandfather came her in the late 1800's he settled in the Polish neighborhood. There were Italian neighborhoods and German neighborhoods too.
My wife's lineage is Italian and her grand parents did the same thing, settled with other Italians.
People may have gone to work during the day, but when they came home they came back to little Poland.
No different than today, with whatever country the immigrants came from.
As a kid I could barely understand a word my grandfather said to me because of his accent. When he talked with my mother and aunts and uncles it was all Polish.
It takes the second generation to actually assimilate to society.
I work in an area with a LOT of Indian and Pakistani immigrants. The immigrants are still in with their cultural traditions. Their kids, they are about as "Americanized" as you can get.
My lineage is Polish and when my grandfather came her in the late 1800's he settled in the Polish neighborhood. There were Italian neighborhoods and German neighborhoods too.
My wife's lineage is Italian and her grand parents did the same thing, settled with other Italians.
People may have gone to work during the day, but when they came home they came back to little Poland.
No different than today, with whatever country the immigrants came from.
As a kid I could barely understand a word my grandfather said to me because of his accent. When he talked with my mother and aunts and uncles it was all Polish.
It takes the second generation to actually assimilate to society.
I work in an area with a LOT of Indian and Pakistani immigrants. The immigrants are still in with their cultural traditions. Their kids, they are about as "Americanized" as you can get.
