Welcome to NEW JERSEY. Newark was and probably still is not particularly a great environment for one too grows up in, but no kid gets to choose where they live. Newark, New Jersey has had many influences on my life. Living up north is 100% different than the southern style of living, it is at a much faster pace, more advances, it is based on independency, and most of all free and open. Life in the north of America will be very hard for foreigners and newcomers because of the many things they will have to learn to adapt too; starting with the weather, in New Jersey you can pretty much predict the weather but 99.9% of the time the weather man is correct but either way the seasons there are completely different. The next thing that newcomers will have a hard time adapting to would be the northern accent, our language is more of a common spoken slang spoke much faster, louder, and harder than most. Foreigners as well as newcomers will more than likely look at the style and sense of dress as crazy because that is how the individuals there define themselves and apply their own individuality. We northerners have strange ways adapting to out of Towner’s, foreigners, and newcomers because they look at us like were beneath them because of where they are from or because of the decorum they show. As a northerner I can say the vibe that will be given off to the foreigners will be very hard to depict at first because it may seem that their not being welcomed which would be because we do not like to share what is ours which takes me into locations of Newark. Even though all of our few historical locations in Newark like the Washington Park, Military Park, and the First Presbyterian Church and Cemetery are well respected by the residents and foreigners you have places that newcomers will turn down their noses towards because of who the territory belongs to. Corner stores, liquor stores and local Laundromats were and probably still is territory of drug dealers, gang members and the homeless and these types of locations everyone respected, to the younger tribes basketball courts, recreational centers, playgrounds, and open lots were their territories and they cherished these places but depending on what block you lived on or what apartment complex or building you stayed in you could only play at your local territory and all of the young respected that because everyone wanted to just have fun. No matter who you were or where you lived everyone treated the elderly with respect, their territory was their own property. Having living in Newark so many years I can say a lot of businesses do not last long. And if a foreigner and newcomer were to come to Newark and want to start a business there are few challenges that they will face; one being adaptation, knowing where you want your business and in what area you want your business as well, two being what you want to produce, knowing what is in style and what is not would help them a lot and three being who they want to consume their product, knowing what attracts the human eye as well as knowing who they want to attract would be everyone, the younger generation or maybe even the older generation. To conclude I would say not only will foreigners have a hard time adapting Newark, New Jersey but anyone anywhere will have a hard time adapting to anything brand new. It takes a lot of getting used to and hard work but what you put your mind and heart to you can accomplish.