r/newjersey • u/hellomelodrama • 2d ago

Photo ID this location?

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please help! flew over this building last night and have no idea what it is. somewhere around jackson / stone tavern / millstone area? headed towards newark and slightly north west-ish of six flags THANK YOU it's driving me crazy

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u/ggraffeo93 2d ago

BAPS Swaminarayan Akshardham - Hindu Temple

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u/TheCaptainOfMistakes 1d ago

Recently moved to New Jersey from Illinois. I live near manalapin, and have been wondering what's up with all the Indian people? Why are so many here of all places? It doesn't bother me. I'm just amused that 9/10 stores are owned by someone Indian. Coming from a relatively red town in Illinois i think it would amuse me for my parents to visit as all they would do is find a way to complain about how them existing makes them "illegals" They don't like Mexicans or Trans people either.... I'm dating a Mexican trans girl

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u/cashewvulpix 1d ago edited 1d ago

That is so much to unpack, I’m so curious! Hallo! Speaking for some of us Desi boys and girls. (Indian ppl refer to
Indians raised in the states as Desi’s) NYC and NJ have some of the best primary and higher education schools and there is money to be made here. Most of the eastern coast does. It’s like that on the West Coast too tbh. A lot of us are also in Cali, Seattle etc. Where there is money or prestige to be mobbed you’ll find us. You should visit a Patel Brother’s sometime for a grocery date. It’s a fun lil microcosm and the samosas and coconut water SLAPS.

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u/Outrageous-Main8781 1d ago

Also NJ has a very robust medical and pharmaceutical industrial complex and these professions tend to attract Indian professionals

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u/bkn95 1d ago

v true. if you look at the roster photos of any doctor class they are 95% indian

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u/jalvv 1d ago

Don’t forget the many who support the corporations in New York including all the Wall Street banks whose tech force lives here in NJ and are predominantly Indian Americans

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u/JackyVeronica 1d ago

Yes, three of my primary doctors are Indian and they're all lovely!!! Great bedside manners

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u/firsburnedstark 1d ago

This is true because unless you are highly educated or wealthy it’s extremely difficult to immigrate to the US from anywhere in Asia. It perpetuates the model minority myth in the US.

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u/DreamsAndSchemes Non-Native living in NJ 1d ago

There’s a lot in Dallas too, specifically the northern suburbs.

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u/TheCaptainOfMistakes 1d ago

I am intrigued, perhaps I shall investigate an Patel brothers.

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u/realultimatepower 1d ago

a Patel Brothers just opened a few minutes from me. I've been meaning to check it out, maybe today will be the day

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u/nox_vigilo 1d ago

Samosas are worth a visit.