 LA versus New York which city should you move to if you're Asian now actually this question gets posed on the internet a lot and In this video, we are going to give you our answer once and for all Yeah, honestly, you see this question posted so often We just got to break it down from the micro to the mid to the macro because the truth is Andrew as much as people ask This online behind a faceless avatar. We don't know the answer Each individual is different So I don't really understand why people are just asking other strangers this question without getting to know this person However, what we can provide for you in this video is the framework on how to figure it out These are the things you have to think about when you're thinking about moving anywhere and by the way Yes, moving environments moving cities can definitely change your life in very drastic ways. We all understand this So please if you're excited by this video or you're gonna find it useful hit that like button right now and click subscribe David let's get into it. Yeah, I know people really want to see, you know taco versus bagel tank top versus Black jacket, but at the end of the day guys, we already made that video We made one a few years ago called East Coast Asians versus West Coast Asians They hit like two million views So if you want to see like those micro nuance things to get a lot of views This is not the place for it We are actually gonna be breaking down the calculus and the math behind it Andrew We got to take a look at the macro view when you are picking a city or a coast to move to or to settle down in Andrew, you're essentially picking a Pokemon starter pack the blue deck the red deck the green deck This is gonna provide you the fundamental basis of what you have to work with now Of course, there's gonna be a lot of micro we reads within that But basically Andrew long story short the geography matters right for example The majority of people in America live near the East Coast the East Coast is also closer to Europe You're gonna get a lot more people who know their European ties whether they're like, yeah, I'm proud to be Italian or Yeah, I'm proud to be Irish. You know, you're just gonna get a lot more of that vibe But you a lot more people from the Middle East the Caribbean Biggie's mom was Jamaican That's just because look at the geography of where it's at. Okay, Andrew on the West Coast California used to belong to Mexico. That's why there's so many Mexicans and Latin Americans along the West Coast You know what there else is a lot of Andrew on the West Coast, huh? Asians Wow because they're right across the Pacific Ocean you go to Hawaii you go to Alaska There are native-looking peoples there. They look Asian. Yeah, I mean I think the short answer is a lot of Asians move to California guys However, the answer is much more complicated than that I will say this if you are looking for Asian pockets or Asian communities in any state that you go to look for the Asian supermarket and the cluster of restaurants around it and from there if you're Ever being lonely and you're finding yourself in a situation like there's no Asians out there That's where the Asians would be. Yeah, by the way guys. I'm not saying the West Coast and the East Coast are not nuanced I know that Philly, New York and Boston they tend to have their own vibe anything below Philly is its own vibe Honestly, we're from the West Coast Andrew Seattle gets sort of taken out of the West Coast energy because it's the Pacific Northwest It snows up there. Yeah, and I say when it comes to moving to the West or the East Coast Don't necessarily move for the coast find a city or two that you really enjoy and move for those reasons like I Like New York, but do I love? Everywhere else around New York. I love New York. That's what you're trying to say about Beantown Beantown's cool. I like Boston. All right, let's get straight to the micro Andrew This is our next week. We're gonna skip over the mid We're gonna go back to it and I'll explain why in a second Andrew. What is your character? What Pokemon are you out of the red deck or the blue deck or the green deck? What's your industry? What type of Asian are you? What are your larger? Identities that sort of like make up your persona beyond being Asian and this is gonna be relevant I'll just give you a clue right now Andrew if you're a chef Asian and you want to rep your cuisine New York is gonna seem like not a 10 out of 10, but it's gonna seem like a much stronger pick Right, right, right. I would say essentially in the micro It's asking like in the NBA terms. What is your wingspan? What is your height? What is your standing vertical? Right? How fast are you? What are your micro stats? Right as an individual. These are your tools that you're working with in a regular person sense What are your finances? Even how do you look or what type of Asian are you? What are your goals? What kind of industries are you in? Of course everybody wants to make money But how do you want to make that money? Do you want to make it outside of the system within an institution a hybrid approach? Let me ask another question How much do you like to party and who do you want to party with? Because there are different cities that have different party scenes and would you agree with me that it generally in life? Andrew like whatever Pokemon you're born. It's difficult to shape shift into another Pokemon But you can level up to a different evolution of that same Pokemon Also, maybe I don't know if this is how it works in the Pokemon game But different Pokemons perform better under certain circumstances like I'm just gonna make one up Weedle You know, maybe it's better in the ground, but you got to be in the ground That's the natural habitat of the Weedle. If Weedle is flying through the air. I don't know what Weedle is doing I mean, I think it matters even what type of Asian you are for example if I was like Hmong, right? Like I would want to be in Fresno or I would want to be in Minnesota If what I'm looking to achieve has to do with pinging around or like galvanizing other people with the similar shared experiences Right. I mean, I would also say yeah, you could look at Dallas too That has a growing Southeast Asian and anywhere where the for example if you're Hmong Oh, wow, wow population anywhere where there's a loud population a heavy Southeast Asian particular Population might not be bad for, you know smaller groups like Hmong people just because you know That's the culture that you're closer to. We knew a Korean guy from New York who opened up a chain of like hipster coffee shops in Atlanta But the thing is if you were another type of Asian other than Korean I don't know if you're moving from New York to Atlanta But it's because Atlanta has a huge Korean population that maybe like needed cooler hipster Artistic artisanal things from New York. Yeah, so that is gonna like play into it And that was based off the specific Pokemon character with his own individual metrics and traits that he had Yeah, surprisingly guys, Oregon has a lot of Thai restaurants I didn't know this until I went to Portland and they love Thai food out there Yeah, I would say for example Andrew just to give a personal example when we were living in Los Angeles And we wanted to switch to doing more food content It was much easier for us to live in the San Gabriel Valley 626 where all the shop owners were Asian Not only that the majority of that Asian was Chinese. So we were able to like Basically film at food spots much much much easier than we would have if we lived in West Side LA Right, so that even depended on the positioning within the city And which brings us to our midpoint if we were to chop each city Which is the macro by the way and then we have already determined who we are in the micro what character We are if we were to chop a city into 16 grids Andrew most people are gonna live in three four or five of them Like you mean like their favorite restaurants or their gym or where they live is probably within four or five Squares of each other. Yeah, for example, if you're a the mayor of a city or you're a food reviewer It's your job to care about all 16 Slices or 16 tiles on that grid. Yeah, but the majority of people do not right So this is like the part where it's like, okay, I have to pick the coast I've picked the city now I'm picking who I am or I'm like aware of who I am self-awareness and then now boom We're picking neighborhoods and industries. Yeah and neighborhoods really matters for example If you live in Los Angeles County, which is very very large. Okay, Los Angeles County has multiple cities Some people would say it's like 32 grids if you live in the west side saw tell right very rarely Are you going to six to six? You might go there maybe once a week? That's already fairly often, but if you go there once a week You're spending probably 70% of your life or 60% of your life in West L. A if you live in Brooklyn, New York Like even Williamsburg or if you live in Park slope or obviously even Bensonhurst You're probably gonna be spending 60 to 70% of your life somewhere in Brooklyn. Yeah, let's say for example, Andrew We were to break LA in the 16 grids Probably realistically only four or five of those tiles make up the entertainment industry But it seems like the majority of people moving to LA they move there for those four or five tiles So there you have it Andrew the micro the mid the macro That is a way that you can analyze if your Pokemon is gonna fit in whatever starter pack Doing whatever projects and missions that is literally the best way to break it down And I think that you could take this and apply it internationally You can do it imply it within the country But it's just basically a mental equation you have to decide whether or not What is the mathematical likelihood? You're gonna have a successful life in a given place. Yeah, man We were just playing Mario Kart on Switch the other day at our friend's restaurant And I just realized how advanced it got because you can pick your wheels and your vehicle and your character Not actually all the characters I think are equal but when it came to picking your vehicle for Mario Kart and the landscape it really matters Oh, no, not all the characters are equal Andrew Bowser came with different Oh, you're right So then you are already when you're picking your character Trying to find a balance or whatever fits you as a player because maybe you're like the one that you I like to go fast. So I just need better traction or no I'm just really good at steering. So I don't need that much speed because I'm just gonna avoid everything Yeah, I think that when you take a look at video games A lot of people are able to make these reads because it's breaking down the math to a simple enough equation But when it comes to like, where am I gonna be happier in my life? That's when it starts to get very convoluted and overly complex And that's why we introduced this calculus to simplify for people, right? Alright, so let's just get into individual people that we know Andrew For example, if you want to be a chef and you want to like represent your cuisine almost in a United Nations type of way You should probably be where the United Nations is somewhere in New York, right? Because that's the best place to like for example, we know Helen Wynne from Seattle She opened up Saigon social in New York to sort of like do a mixture between Vietnamese and French cuisine But still make it authentic and uplift the eyes of the Vietnamese cuisine sort of like in America or in New York New York's the place that she should do it. Yeah And we know that there's a lot of like chef teams and chef groups out here There's like Asian food mafia and all these different like there's a lot of community between the Asian chefs out here Chefs in general, but I want to point out particularly Asian chefs And by the way guys I know if you have a family the calculus changes because you're not just living for yourself You're living for like your your your spouse and your kids But anyway moving on Andrew What if you want to be in like Hollywood or do anything media related you probably would want to do what our friend Leo levitate style did and Move to LA. I mean listen you can act in New York for example There's different cities like Atlanta that still might have some opportunities But if you are truly just trying to maximize your opportunities and you have the means to move to LA And you have the freedom to move to LA you should always give it a shot if you're trying to go into Hollywood I would also say if you're trying to be a social media star And you are looking for more people to collaborate with in a social media sense like for example tick-tock in Instagram I don't think LA is a bad choice either. That's where all of that kind of culture is that's what I've noticed a lot of the More lifestyle vloggers moving in New York to show off like the city and stuff like that So it goes to show you it's different One is more content creation if you want to interview Wild people and ratchet lives then go to LA if you want to just show people how sick the coffee you had was this morning go to New York Andrew what about an Ivy League or like a high-tier corporate type of Asian guy? Where should they go? Probably SF or New York, right? But LA is starting to get a lot more jobs for somebody who was like really concerned with like elite colleges and stuff like that Yeah, if you're an Ivy League person and you like to have constantly Intellectual conversations with people I think New York is a good way good place to be listen a lot of people as well A little boring though Boston a little whatever a lot of people from very good colleges move to New York So you're gonna meet a lot of those other people I'm sure a lot of your college mates also move to New York if you went to the Ivy Leagues because they're based on the east coast What if you like AZN things we're talking about import models a bg's you know this type of If you don't know what AZN is I just throw up some photos, but You probably know what it is. Yeah, I would say Vegas Vegas became over time I think it always was a good a B You know AZN I'm spot to be but now it like jumped to number one on the list up there with OC Maybe San Jose. Okay, so I'm gonna go ahead and say my top picks for this would be Houston in no particular order Houston Vegas San Jose OC Rose Mead LA as well particularly maybe San Gabriel Valley and on the east coast if I had to say I think parts of Boston the I see Philly and Boston over New York the Asian neighborhoods in Boston Yeah, Quincy and New York has some too, of course Yeah, but the New York version of AZN is definitely more like I guess mixed with fob, right? Yeah, it's Bob Asian Moving on Andrew. What if you just want to be someone who's just around really level-headed people? And you're not concerned with the litmus or the the wild roller coaster of life You know where would be a great place Seattle? There's a lot of good Asian food in Seattle a lot of good seafood lots of great Fuh actually a lot of Vietnamese and Filipinos up there and yeah, I would say obviously the way with Seattle's moving It's becoming more tech focused. It's almost like a more less startup version of SF, right? It is let me be clear not lit though. It is not lit in your party Nobody ever I don't even care if you're a party promoter from Seattle They will not tell you that it's lit compared to another city. Yeah, it's just you're gonna have to go elsewhere to party Um, if you want to raise a dreamlike White picket fence Asian American family where your kid has a best chance at playing D1 sports. I think hands-down I don't even think this is up for dispute the Bay area. Yeah Specifically somewhere like Fremont Palo Alto Barling game. Yeah, shout out to amazing HQ follow their Instagram to follow all the upcoming Asian athletes But for some reason the Bay area has all the athletic Asians now Maybe it's just around Jeremy Lynn. Shout out to so many. Yeah multiple. I mean we could go down the list I mean LA does a pretty good job, too I don't want to write that off, but yeah, it just seems like the Bay area man. They produce all the maybe Possibly and this is how culture is from the Bay Perhaps there's no competition from the entertainment industry because despite the Bay in LA being relatively close There's no entertainment industry in the Bay. It's like all tech and like being Asian American. Yeah I got one that's very specific if you're an Asian tech guy and you like to party I would say LA or New York not SF because SS parties scene is not on the same level Even LA is just a more of a recent thing because the convergence of tech and entertainment consumer tech things like a snapchat bumble Whatever Tinder from LA Andrew I'm sure we could just list off another 50 character profiles of different Asians for example Maybe you like hot weather, but you don't like being around a lot of Asians Maybe Florida's good place seems like a lot of people are moving there just not Asians But we got to get into how people can do their own research, right? Because they're sort of like asking the wrong questions because inevitably the way they're asking the question on the internet right now It leads in all these like micro nuances about like food and stuff like that. Hey guys I know you don't know me and I don't know you but can you tell me where to move my entire life? It seems crazy honestly to move for something as arbitrary as like tacos versus pizza dude guys stop asking these questions on the internet Please what you should do if you have the means or you have some time what you should do is Go meet up with a friend that lives in that city or you go at least visit there for like a week or so Airbnb is popping right now Airbnb or at least a weekend somehow get out there Before we moved anywhere. We also always visited and I think that's the best thing that you can do Go there for a trip and see how you feel when your feet are on the ground. Yeah, I do think there's other websites You know, I think they're useful in some ways of course like Reddit city data Quora, but at the end of the day you really got to get there and you got to go with a mission Okay, here's another hack. This is kind of funny. If you made it to the end of this video He is a little tip if you're a guy and you care about your dating life Just go set your location in different cities and see which city you feel like you do the best in and maybe that Is like internationally. Yeah, maybe that's a good sign of where you should visit now I'm not saying that is going to determine everything. It's gonna depend on how you're saying. That's all the guys care about They're gonna base where they live the life off the matches. I don't know I don't know if people really like you in that city. Maybe you should move there It might be emblematic of like a lot of other things it could be symbolic is all I'm saying All right, you guys let us know in the comment section below what you thought of our calculus our math breakdown of where anybody should live Like we said, there's the macro starter deck, then there's who you are in the micro. What's your character? What Pokemon what level of evolution you are and then of course the mid which tiles are you picking? Cuz each city each neighborhood is made up of many tiles and you don't gotta live in all of them Maybe only like 25 30% of it got to be relevant to you Of course, unless you're the mayor or a food critic, let us know in the comment section below Hopefully this answers a question and moves the discussion along until next time we to hop up boys. We out