"The people in NYC are more interesting as well. Here in Syracuse everyone has the same bored look on their face when they walk by you, cell phones glued to their ears, all talking in English, no interesting languages."
I found this to be kind of untrue, or else I just happened to work at a bunch of jobs and go to schools that were full of refugees. Pretty much every minimum wage job I had was full of African and Yugoslavic refugees- mostly Sudanese, Kenyans, Albanians, and Bosnians. It was interesting trying to train people who couldn't even speak english. Good luck asking me questions right?
My sister lives across the street from a bunch of Mayans from Guatemala and is dating one of them.
My highschool had a relatively large Hmong population, a lot of African natives and random people from Europe and it seemed like pretty much every friend I had in h.s. were at least bilingual if not trilingual. I think thats the only thing I liked about that craphole of a school, so much diversity.
There are some excellent restaurants too- like Sahota Palace. I still haven't found a place quite like it in NYC. Dinasaur BBQ is the best- you know its good when NYC opens up one in Harlem. There are lots of international grocery good stores along Erie Blvd- theres this one awesome place downtown somewhere that sells a bunch of middle eastern goods at a cheap price- like Baklava. You get the picture.
Syracuse has a lot to offer if you know where to look- and I say this as a new resident to NYC.
I found this to be kind of untrue, or else I just happened to work at a bunch of jobs and go to schools that were full of refugees. Pretty much every minimum wage job I had was full of African and Yugoslavic refugees- mostly Sudanese, Kenyans, Albanians, and Bosnians. It was interesting trying to train people who couldn't even speak english. Good luck asking me questions right?
My sister lives across the street from a bunch of Mayans from Guatemala and is dating one of them.
My highschool had a relatively large Hmong population, a lot of African natives and random people from Europe and it seemed like pretty much every friend I had in h.s. were at least bilingual if not trilingual. I think thats the only thing I liked about that craphole of a school, so much diversity.
There are some excellent restaurants too- like Sahota Palace. I still haven't found a place quite like it in NYC. Dinasaur BBQ is the best- you know its good when NYC opens up one in Harlem. There are lots of international grocery good stores along Erie Blvd- theres this one awesome place downtown somewhere that sells a bunch of middle eastern goods at a cheap price- like Baklava. You get the picture.
Syracuse has a lot to offer if you know where to look- and I say this as a new resident to NYC.
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