Most of the immigrants they came to New York City because New York City was considered as one of the accessible place for work and the transportation. Even though it was really hard for immigrants at that period during 1945. “Because many of were poor and lack of English language and occupational skills they troubled finding employment, so most labored in relatively low skill pay jobs.” (231, Binder)
Since, my family are not here in United States they are in Nepal but I have my relatives who came here more than 20 years ago. I came here about 4 yrs ago. I was really surprised to see different faces and culture over here in New York. Most of my relatives , they are in Queens because they said that they see a familiar faces and easy access for buses and train and for groceries. They went though a hard time comparing now because they had to tackle through different problems like racial discrimination. Even, for apartments Bengali used to rent only Bengali, Indian only for Indians. Now, New York became a place of race and ethnicity where we could see people from different countries. It is more like different salads in one bowl. Since, Queens became a major area of Chinese, Korean, Asian Indains now and they have better life comparing the past because most of the people from China and Korea the established their own business.
It takes courage to come to the US away from your home in Nepal to a foreign country even if you have relatives here. I understood how one of the reasons you came here was for better economic opportunities since that is also part of why my family was drawn here.