Other professionals work in universities, law firms, and hospitals, or for import-export companies. In addition, there are hundreds of Asian entrepreneurs. It employs 58. Koreans, some of whom moved here after their businesses were destroyed in the 1992 Los Angeles riots, find Texas an easier place to do business. The Texas environment encourages such relocations.
Real estate is cheap, taxes are low, unions are weak, and local officials are business- oriented.
For Asians, whose lives revolve around home and family, such attributes as safety, decent public schools, and affordable housing add to this city's attractiveness. I have two kids. The lifestyle and family values here are part of a vision of the U.S. that resonates among Asians. At the Dallas Buddhist Assn., a temple affiliated with a major Taiwanese sect, Huang Jen-chie, a monk, tells me his impressions of life in Texas. But people here are simple folk, '' he says.