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Gotta tell ya, Reston and NoVA is the land of A-rab opportunity. (For those not familiar with Northern Virginia, ironically the only place I speak more Arabic
by 616c 11y ago
Gotta tell ya, Reston and NoVA is the land of A-rab opportunity.
(For those not familiar with Northern Virginia, ironically the only place I speak more Arabic outside of Arab countries than anywhere else, specifically in the United States, even after hearing NJ is Little Egypt.)
Anyway, cool story, man. Would love to see you write more about it!
- Yabood 11y agoI am surprised to hear you say that you speak more Arabic in this area than anywhere else in the US. I think MI, NJ, and CA have much larger Arab communities. At any rate, I think immigrants in general should move to areas where they are forced to learn more about their "new" country to better integrate than isolate themselves within these communities.
- 616c 11y agoWell, I also had a long-term relationship with a Lebanese-American person. That might have skewed it. I also studied it as a major, which helped self-select my friends. In Virginia, you meet many new immigrants. And in Bethesda area of Maryland and the surrounding area of DC, there are many established Lebanese families (gathering from the church events and more formal social events I was invited to). Again, these are one man's anecdotes.