Anyway, regardless, Suburb One will always have a place in my heart because our adoption agency is there. That’s where I met both of my babies for the first time!

If this is the suburb I think it is, I’m just south of there and plan to move there within the next two years. It doesn’t have the Asian pop like Chinatown or the north side but there are Asian families there. It’s more young professional families though, and the only real “community” I’ve noticed is the latte-swilling, NPR-listening, folk music-playing, farmers market shoppers. I consider it diverse though there aren’t as many folks of my color there as some places in Chicagoland. It’s a well-to-do town adjacent to one of the poorest parts of Chicago but black and white eat at the same restaurants, go to the same movie theaters, and shop at the same Whole Foods with a remarkable lack of fuss over it. But if the Asian quotient is really important to you, look north. But you will have to put up with a more hectic, less suburban feel.

That asian mom is probably lying so her kid won’t have another asian student to compete against.