"Dwelling" in the 2009 China quietly popular word can also be used in some Chinese countrymen across the ocean. Some of them accustomed to the dwelling of life, some people are willing to learn children dwelling, it was for academic purposes and dormant cramped quarters, more is forced to livelihoods, had squeezed. Laden with snail shells they quietly pay, hard to work, but they can not get rid of livelihoods, health and housing pressure.

Single apartment in Manhattan average more than $ 2,000 per month today, some of the Chinatown hotel still offers with such costs just $ 100 to $ 200 a room, where the Chinese in the United States is called "scattered Aberdeen Pavilion" (English called Single Room Occupacy, referred SRO).

Although the accommodation is poor, and occasionally there are fire and safety hazards, but here low rents still attracted many Chinese workers. They arrived in the U.S. he settled here, some living here for ten years, even decades.

Less than six square meters of a place to put a bunk bed, a small square table and some debris, which is Huangpei De home. The so-called "kitchen", just put a bottle of the room in a corner cooker and cooker. The "next door", in fact, only separated by a thin layer of the baffle, baffle and the ceiling, but there is more than one meter between the gaps. Landlord these floors divided into 31 equally sized room, shared bath and toilet, but because fire needs between rooms can not be completely cut off.

This year 87-year-old Huangpei De seventies of last century, one person alone immigrants to the United States when he first came to New York to work in a Chinese restaurant, limited income. Here's the monthly rent was only $ 110, and it is located in a central location in Chinatown is also very convenient, so he roots here, has lived for 32 years, is this scattered Aberdeen shop seniority oldest tenants.

Huang said he has legal immigration status and 87 years old, long before have the opportunity to apply for government to provide low-rent apartments for the elderly. However, most of those apartments in the non-Chinese settlements, used to live in Chinatown, he felt unable to adapt, so still guarding their own little six meters "nest."

Huang roommate Chen Ziyang from Fujian Fuzhou, around 2000, a second child in order to avoid fines and ligation surgery and came to New York, because many relatives and folks live in this scattered Aberdeen museum, he also moved in. He slept in the upper berth Taoism, but due to the room at the top to prevent theft spread a layer of barbed wire, and he can not be straightened up in bed, so usually only go to bed only when you want to climb into bed. Because of the limited space inside the room, he's nowhere to place only a few pieces of luggage piled on the bed.

Such living conditions of New York's Chinatown is scattered Aberdeen Pavilion normal - crowded (some even kept three bed room home to a whole family) and Privacy poor (because the room is not capped, I can clearly hear conversations outside) . But because of this, this scattered Aberdeen Pavilion in the neighborhood is also home to intimacy than the average, and many people love to chat with each other ChuanMenzi together watching soap operas, and even made a dish also points to the neighbors. Unlike some reports saw the crowded in a small space emotional depression, though they flies difficult, but it is surprisingly fun.