Oh man. This is so cool. You are like totally the poster boy for Richard Florida's whole Creative Class thingy. You should write an oped for the Spec. A few years back when we had an influx of refugees from Kosovo, they had an ongoing Kosovo Diary written by a doctor from Kosovo about his familiy's experience of coming to Hamilton and making a new life, etc. You could totally write a Kreative Klass Diary. Blow all the squelchers away.
Welcome, welcome, welcome.