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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Public transportation and general street savvy.  [b]Also, being comfortable around ethnic food - both restaurants and groceries. [/b] [/quote]
Huh. Why's that? We moved out to the suburbs in large part due to the better ethnic grocery stores and restaurants.[/quote]

It's not that there is no good ethnic foods in the suburbs.  But getting ethnic food in the suburbs is an outing, as in "today we are going to that <insert ethnicity> place where we go every couple of weeks".   And there are menus, and Yelp reviews, and they are making certain adjustments for the proverbial "white people", have waiters who speak excellent English, etc.  It's a bit different with the places that are first and foremost serving local immigrant communities and also happen to be your neighbors, and you interact with them as neighbors.   [/quote]
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You haven't been to the suburbs in this century, I take it. The most vibrant, strong, and growing immigrant communities are in the suburbs now, and have been for thirty or so years.[/b] [/quote]

There's a certain sort of white person who insists on living in DC, absolutely refuses to visit "the suburbs", but imagines them as if they are "the suburbs" of Des Moines in 1980, likes to pat themselves on the back for their child's "diverse" experience of going to an "ethnic" restaurant once in a while, and CANNOT imagine that there are diverse ethnic communities created and rooted in the suburbs. I've had these white people sneer at me, to my face, and judge me for being so uncouth as to live in the suburbs. I'm Indian, and choose to live in the suburbs *because* they are more diverse than AU Park or whatever. It's ridiculous.[/quote]

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