“It is shocking to think that our Silicon Valley housing prices are “cheap” to the Chinese.”
This has been going on in my East Bay home town of Castro Valley where Chinese buyers have been gobbling up homes for years. These are $400,000 to $800,000 single family homes, not multi-million dollar mansions like in the article.
What I’m seeing are whole families, including grandparents (and sometimes both sets of grandparents), relocating from there to here for a number of reasons. I’ve had many a pleasant discussion with these folks in what I imagine is a classic American style - with the children translating in perfect English.
I have observed that these are people generally determined to become American and are investing in our culture. They’re leaving China because it is still a communist dictatorship (#1 reason) they want more children (#2), they’re getting out now while they can (my paraphrase), freedom and education.
To any saying that these folks vote democrat, I can only say that our area is one of the most conservative in the Bay Area. The schools are good. My kids got a great education not because of the teacher’s union, but because Chinese parents brought the overall standards up.
As a history guy, I remind kids and parents alike about the long history the Chinese have had in the United States. During the Gold Rush, Americans came to “see the elephant”,
Chinese came to see “the mountain of gold”.
Public schools are public schools, no matter where they are located. Kalipornia has some of the most perverted standards too.
"Good" by comparison maybe.