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10:48, 20-Sep-2017
LA's Chinatown becomes one of best places to live in US
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Monterey Park has been named one of the best places to live in the US.
The ranking, released by Money Magazine Monday, was evaluated from the aspects of a healthy economy, affordable house and high quality of life. The Fishers City of Indiana is on the top of the list, and Allen of Texas was the second.
Monterey Park is part of a cluster of cities located in San Gabriel Valley of Los Angeles region, with most of the residents being Asian Americans. According to the 2010 Census, the city has a total population of 60,000 and nearly half of its residents are of Chinese descent.
A Hnog Kong cafe in Monterey Park /California government website
A Hnog Kong cafe in Monterey Park /California government website
"I am not surprised about it since we have the spectacular views, high quality of education and a lot of recreational parks here. But I think the most important thing is we have a diversity of residents with a multicultural environment," Teresa Sebastian, the mayor of Monterey Park said Tuesday. "I am very glad we got this laurel, and we will make more effort to make the city even better."
Monterey Park, located 8 miles (13 kilometers) east of downtown Los Angeles, is one of the largest concentration of Chinese Americans in the United States. The Chinese restaurants can be seen everywhere in the city so that Chinese people from every corner of Los Angeles would drive to the hillside suburban town to taste their hometown's cuisine on weekends.
"When we moved here, we only consider it's convenient to go to the Chinese supermarket and eat Chinese food. For the Asians, it's much easier to live here than other areas, since you don't have to know a lot of English, and you can find any food of your hometown here," Ziyuan Gao, who has lived in Monterey Park for five years, said.
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Source(s): Xinhua News Agency