After a few years of living in New York City and becoming involved with the barbershop community, I’ve become more accustomed to being the only Asian person in rooms of 30 or even 300 people. I thought it would be interesting to look at how Asian my communities have been over the years:
| Locale | % Asian |
| San Jose & Milpitas 1, 2 | 48% |
| Palo Alto 3 | 27% |
| Stanford 4 | 21% |
| San Francisco & Dropbox 5, 6 | 33% |
| New York City – Manhattan 7 | 9% |
| All US 8 | 5% |
| Berlin 9 | 3% |
| Paris 10 | 1% |