"They Said America Was Heaven, But Now I Regret Coming."

San Francisco CA

16 December, 2021

2:03 PM

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By Yujie Zhou, Mission Local December 16, 2021 This is Mission Local's third article on the senior Chinese immigrants we meet in the Alabama Street food line. Click here to read the first one and here for the second one. While many of their children and grandchildren have flourished in the United States, Chinese immigrants who came as adults and are now seniors live with regrets and an ineffable longing for the country they left behind. "Every Chinese immigrant has a wound in their heart," said Koey Zhou, community programs coordinator at Chinatown YMCA. "Especially those middle-aged and older immigrants. They spent most of their lives in China and went through a hard time there. Then they had to suffer again when they came to America." To read the full article, click here. Mission Local covers San Francisco from the vantage point of the Mission, a neighborhood with all of the promise and problems of a major city. You can support Mission Local here.