Nor could he have gotten his car or the nice clothes his teen-age sister covets. I can pay bills and stuff. That's a really big plus here. It's not unusual to walk through the Prospect Park apartment complex in Whitehall and find young Bosnian men cruising in cars, blasting the latest rock CD from their home country. The sharp tones of neighbors speaking Bosnian are easily heard from open patio doors.
Mothers call children playing outside.
The mouthwatering scents of homemade bread and meat-filled patties, called pitta, waft through the hallways. Welcome to Pittsburgh's Little Bosnia. Refugees are people who have left their native countries because of persecution or fear of persecution as a result of race, religion, nationality or political beliefs. Reunited in freedom Petar, Suncica and Tea Milanovic are finally a family. Separated for almost three years because of the Bosnian war, and later living as unwanted refugees in Germany, the Milanovics are basking in all-American suburban stability in Castle Shannon.