Posted Jan 16, 2018, 5:20 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: River North, Chicago, Illinois
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Originally Posted by marothisu
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As far as Chinese go, maybe a different mindset. The cities on average aren't as bad as far as being slummy, so there's not that mindset necessarily. My girlfriend's parents live in a suburban district of Shanghai, but it's nothing like Naperville. There's still tons of high rises and a 5 or so minute walk from their place has a lot of restaurants. It's more like a downtown Evanston or New City (Lincoln Park) type of thing but with way more green space, ponds, etc...nicer. They thought that Lakeview and Bridgeport were suburbs. My girlfriend says that Chinese people are fairly lenient and as long as they are close to the train, that's one thing that matters.
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Indians that I know, even young ones, seem to like downtown until they want a family at which point they like Naperville. I think a big part of that is that urban India is nowhere near as nice as urban China so there is more of a built-in preference for what used to be called "the American dream" lifestyle - a car and a quarter-acre plot of land. Even though our trains are nowhere near as crowded as Indian trains, many Indians arrive with a prejudice against mass transit whereas Chinese see it more as a positive, liberating service. Just my experience with Indian coworkers in tech.
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