<p>I think it’s different being from another part of the country and being from a different part of the world. From what I’ve seen living in NYC, immigrant groups tend to stick together; entire neighborhoods are formed around a common culture. I know certain neighborhoods are dominated by Chinese immigrants, another by Russian immigrants, Polish people, Greeks, etc. It’s no accident that this happened. We’re not a “melting pot” as some people say we are, but rather we’re more like a tossed salad.</p>
<p>Tying this back to the topic at hand, I don’t see immigrants wanting to move to a part of the country that has few people of the same culture. Unless there’s an ethnic enclave in Maine that I don’t know about, why would they want to go there? There’s no incentive.</p>