People who immigrated to America told their personal experiences.

In recent years, more and more China people have embarked on the road of emigration because of their longing for American life, developed economy, social progress, superior educational resources and good social welfare. The United States has become the first choice for people in the world to immigrate, and the trend of China people immigrating to the United States is getting worse. However, education in the United States is not as easy as imagined. When you first arrive in America, loneliness may be an unavoidable problem. The focus is on how to integrate into immigrant life. The following 86 overseas experts share their personal experiences from three aspects: education, life and entrepreneurship, and provide suggestions and guidance on how to integrate into local life. After sharing, we will have an online question and answer. The following is a wonderful question and answer review.

Question 1: Since American education attaches so much importance to interest cultivation, should children be encouraged to join more clubs?

A: The answer is yes. Of course, we should participate more. We should support him and encourage him to take part in more club activities in his fields of interest.

Then why did you attend? First, it is his hobbies, which can stimulate his interest, improve his leadership ability and cultivate the spirit of teamwork with the students in the community. Second, joining the club is also to prepare him for college. There are many factors besides SAT and grades in American university admission. In fact, I strongly recommend that you make a complete plan for your children after immigrating to the United States. Until he goes to college, it can also be understood as a resume before he goes to college. This resume includes not only his academic achievements, but also what clubs he has joined, what volunteers he has done, what activities he has organized and what achievements he has made. From elementary school to junior high school to senior high school, the accumulation of every step and moment will always follow him in his file until the moment he applies for a university, and joining a club is often the most brilliant part of this resume, so my answer is to want and encourage, if there is an opportunity, to participate with children, which is the greatest support for children.

Question 2: Excuse me, I want to take my children to study in the United States. These children are American citizens and were born in America. I am a Chinese teacher in a university in China. What are immigrants doing here? Is it easy to be a Chinese teacher? Is it difficult to get started in the real estate industry? How can I join the real estate service industry?

A: It is still easy to be a Chinese teacher after immigrating to the United States. Cities with many Chinese have Chinese schools. At present, the main body of education in China schools is Taiwan Province teachers. If there are Chinese teachers from China, they are actually very popular with parents in China. Therefore, I think it is very, very easy to find a job as a Chinese teacher.

Is it difficult to get started in the real estate industry? In fact, it is not difficult to get started in the real estate industry. As long as your English is good, the difficult thing is how to provide good after-sales service to customers, so that customers can recognize you and accept your service and feel that you are really helping them. The process during this period is very, very hard. How to overcome the hardships during this period is the most critical. After winning the trust of customers, it is not difficult to have more customers.

Question 3: Is there a big difference between the old and the new when new immigrants buy a house and choose a new house or an old house? Is it a new house after the 1980s?

A: I think many people will say that there is little difference between a new house and an old house. Houses after the 1980s are considered as new houses in the United States, but I personally think that if you can buy a house after 2000, I suggest you buy it after 2000. Why? Because the biggest problem of the house after 2000 is not the old and new problems, but many technologies and real estate policies and regulations are stricter, which will provide more protection for future occupancy. Take air conditioning as an example. If you buy a house in the 1980 s, the equipment of the whole transmission pipeline in the air conditioner should be the third generation. If you buy a new house now, the equipment of the transmission pipeline in the air conditioner should be upgraded from the ninth generation, which will be better in terms of energy saving and other functions. And the newer the house, the more reasonable the function, and the more comfortable it will be to live. In addition, even a house of about 2000 depends on maintenance. If the house in the 1980s has been renovated, proper maintenance is another topic. But under the same conditions, I still suggest buying a new one.

Question 4: Do you have any good suggestions for buying a house in San Diego?

A: To be honest, I can't give you any good advice on this either, because I mainly work in the Los Angeles area. I've seen and learned about San Diego, except for one district that is better, and the others are really unfamiliar. I suggest you find a local agent when you buy a house, which means he will live there himself.

Question 5: Where did you choose as your first stop after entering the United States? Why? Have you considered that your work may be far away from the first stop in the future and you need to move, and your children are just familiar with the school environment at the first stop?

A: After I arrived in the United States, I went to new york first, but I arrived in new york in March. I was really not used to the climate there, it was too cold, so I stayed for about 65,438+05 days, and then we flew to Los Angeles.

There are several reasons for choosing L.A. First, the flight time with China is only 12 hours, which is very convenient for us. Secondly, the time difference is 16 hours, which means I can interact with China for about 6-7 hours every day, which is also convenient for me to do some business with China in the future. Third, I like the climate here very much. Like Owen, where I live now, it is very similar to Shenzhen in China. It is an immigrant city, 5 minutes away from the seaside10-/kloc-0. This city is very new, so I feel familiar with it and like it very much.

In fact, when we first came, we didn't know which city was good at once. It took about four months to travel around the whole Los Angeles area. Visit each city by yourself, see if there is anything you like, and then look for information online, or find someone to know more and ask more through immigrant friends. But I really didn't think about the possibility of moving to work. Because for me, work may not be realistic, and I need to start my own business, so I need to find a more suitable place to start my own business. Personally, Los Angeles is indeed a very suitable place to start a business, especially for new immigrants. It provides more convenient conditions to help you start a new job.

I still stick to my point of view on the issue of children going to school. I want to find a community with at least 30-40% Chinese, and at least I can make friends in this community. If the language environment is completely unfamiliar, the pressure may be a little greater for children, but if we can build such a platform for children to be with some Chinese-speaking friends first, then he will gradually get familiar with these friends and then gradually integrate into the school, I think it will be a relatively smooth transition for children. This is my opinion.

Question 6: What is the income of teachers in China in the United States? Is it necessary to take the American teacher qualification exam?

A: The teacher qualification certificate should not be required, but if you want to go to a public school, you may need it. If you go to a language counseling institution, you definitely don't need it. I really don't know what the specific income is, and I haven't asked it specifically. This question is also sensitive.

Question 7: Is there any difference between American and China's spare time? How to kill time?

A: Amateur life is very different. The biggest point is that there are many friends at home and relatively few in the United States. In China, you can go to KTV to sing or play cards with your friends in your spare time, but in the United States, there are very few people playing cards and KTV. Most parents usually work and spend weekends with their children, which is the most common thing, especially fathers. From Monday to Friday, or from Monday to Saturday, mothers accompany their children, so you can see that 99% of them are fathers who take their children to the park on Saturday.

Question 8: If you are going to immigrate, what should you focus on in your children's education in order to quickly integrate into and adapt to the American education mode after immigration?

A: First, reading; Second, sports.

First of all, why is reading the most important? Because only fast reading can acquire knowledge faster, if a child's reading speed and reading volume can't keep up, it is difficult for him to be on the same starting line with other children with the same conditions. Other children may finish the same book in three days, while your child needs 30 days to finish it. So how can you let him get more knowledge? Only by acquiring more knowledge can we make more progress. Therefore, if you are preparing for immigration, your children's reading, especially English reading, must catch up. It may be slow at first, but it doesn't matter. Get into the habit of reading English.

Second, it is sports. Physical education class may be a class that is often occupied in domestic education, but in the United States, physical education class may be the first class of the day, and physical education class may be the most important class. Only strong body can study better. To give the simplest example, the examination method in physical education class may be the 800-meter examination, to see who is on the standard line, as long as it meets the standard, it is qualified. It's different in America. In the United States, when testing sports, the whole class began to run, running casually on the 200-meter track, running 10 lap if it can, and running 30 laps if it can. How to judge the final result? Whoever runs the most will perform the best. Of course, if you run around, the teacher will not say that you are not good, but will say hello. You will still say hello after running 30 laps, but the gap is reflected in this process. In this process, should children run with the team and persist together, should they have tenacious perseverance and persist for longer, and should they have good physical fitness to run more. There is a client's daughter, 10 years old, who is very good at sports in China. The 200m track can run 10 laps, but American children can run 30 laps. This is the gap, and this is where we need to exercise.

Question 9: Is it better for new immigrants to buy a house in Los Angeles, an apartment or a single house?

A: The most important thing is to look at your budget. If the budget allows, I suggest buying detached houses, because in the past five years, the appreciation space of detached houses in the American real estate market has increased by 5%-7% on average every year, while the increase of apartments has not exceeded 3%, so it is certainly better to buy detached houses from the perspective of appreciation. Moreover, it is much better than apartments in terms of property rights structure, geographical location and housing comfort.

Question 10: Where is the school district in Los Angeles?

My opinion is that Owen, where I live now, is the best. How can I put it? A good school district is not everything. First of all, the key is to have a good school, so the overall learning atmosphere is good. However, a good school does not mean that this place is good. Maybe some city schools are good, but the surrounding environment is poor, so it can't be called good. Therefore, it is very important to have rich educational resources as a whole. Why do I say Owen is good? Owen is not only a school score of 9- 10, but also a large number of public resources provided by the city's education. For example, there are hundreds of tennis courts, various training institutions and various educational institutions in the city, which can give children enough extra-curricular development space, do not need to spend a long time on the way back and forth, and are easy for children and parents. So my suggestion is to find a place like Irvine, where the public and educational resources of the whole city are excellent. In addition, it depends on the overall environment of the city, such as public security.

In addition, Owen is the concept of a school district. For example, Owen has four high schools and will open a fifth one this year. Because of the concept of a school district, the whole school district will transfer the excellent teachers and principals from the first four high schools to the fifth high school, so that the fifth high school will become better. Because the way and method of education are unified in the whole school district, the whole school district will be very good.

Secondly, where the house price is relatively high, the general school district room is better. Because the property tax is higher in places with high housing prices, the property tax is for schools. It's easy for schools to have money. In some places, a house costs $654.38 million. How much can the property tax be collected? Therefore, schools naturally get less funds, and educational resources may not be so good without funds.

Finally, if you are in a good school district, the students around you will not be bad, that is to say, in a class with a good learning atmosphere, it is hard for you to think too badly.

Question 1 1: Do you suggest buying a house or renting a house first? The child is still very young. What would you think if you had physical education and Chinese classes in the first half of the year in China and studied in the United States for half a year, and the winter and summer vacations were staggered?

Answer: whether to buy a house or rent a house first depends mainly on personal economic situation. If the economic situation permits, it is also good to buy a house, pay the down payment, and then rent the house can be used to repay the mortgage, which is also part of the investment. If you don't plan to stay in the United States now, it's not bad to rent a house first, because it's not cost-effective to pay property tax empty. But renting a house often needs to find a good landlord, mainly depending on the arrangement of the individual family.

On the second question, I think it's a bit difficult to choose between letting children stay in China and the United States for half a year. Because I obviously feel that my child returned to China for the New Year at the age of 3, and his English level dropped significantly after one month. If you run from side to side like this, I don't know if your child will feel very painful, but for my sake, I won't do it.

Question 12: Sorry, my English is not good. How to live there after immigrating to America?

A: In my opinion, what live high should look like is completely unaffected. English is not good, you can watch it in the supermarket, you can always recognize it when you buy meat and vegetables, and life is no problem. Besides, if your English is not good, you can learn it. There are many adult English training institutions in the United States, starting from scratch. Since you choose to emigrate, you have the courage to move from one country to another. I think it is no problem to learn English well.

For example, I met a mother that ABC didn't even know. After coming to America, she sent her children to school during the day and went to an English school by herself. Her idea is very simple, that is, she wants to improve herself through her own efforts, and nothing can be overcome, so that children can know that their mother can learn well and you will certainly learn well. I met her in the third year of her study, and her English communication was still stumbling, but by the fifth year, she was free to joke with the locals here without any problems.

There is also a mother whose English is poor, but for her children to study here, she made a rule for herself to read an English book to her children every night. After the children go to school, they start to look up every word of the book, then read it at home and read it to the children at night. Later, not only the mother's English level improved, but also the children's English level improved. Therefore, poor English is definitely not an excuse for you not to live here. You can learn English if you are not good. There was no big problem from the beginning. It's very simple, as long as you overcome this hurdle in your heart.

Question 13: What are the procedures for new immigrants to buy a house in the United States?

Question 14: What is the attraction of immigrating to the United States?

A: For me, the initial purpose of my immigration is to feel that I am still young and that I still have a chance to experience a different life. I don't know the details, but I won't know until I try it myself. If it suits me, I will stay here; If not, I will go back to China and find a lifestyle that suits me.

Immigrants are neither good nor bad. The key is to see if it suits you. Some people like this life, others don't. Therefore, the most important thing is to ask yourself whether you are satisfied and happy with your present life. If so, you will stay in this circle of life. If not, you will try to find another new way of life.