Hard to feel comfortable staying in Chinatown with kids. I think only old folks live here because they don’t want to move. I feel 8th ave Brooklyn and Flushing is (cf NYC Chinatown) also rather old and rundown.

NYC-Chinatown is just as rundown and dirty as Murtle Ave and Journal Square (“dumpy”), but I feel safer because of the Chinese population and tourists.

Will take a lot of adjustments on wife’s part to feel at home in this kinda surroundings.

I saw the suburb at Liu Shuo’s and Kansas City. Very clean, middle-class, spacious…but

* Sacrifice – commute

* Sacrifice – wood house DIY repairs