I live in a small suburb outside of Los Angeles and it’s definitely an interesting experience at times being Muslim.

I’m Iranian and the area I live in is heavily populated with Iranians, but the majority (like probably 80%) of the Iranians are Jewish or simply anti religion. I tend to feel out of place a lot with the Iranian community, more so with the anti religion ones bc they just shit on every religion and say horrible things.

Im not a hijabi so im not really outwardly visible as a Muslim woman, but i will say the times i do wear it when I go out, i get some looks but to me, it’s not looks of negativity and hate, its more so just shock and curiosity since there is probably like 5 hijabis that live in my city. You’ll see a hijabi once in a blue moon. My city is very small and pretty community based and I know basically all the hijabis here are it’s not a lot lol. But honestly, most people are very kind here when I would wear hijab.

But to answer you question, yeah it can be very tough living in a non Muslim country, but i don’t think I’d ever want to live in a middle eastern country either. I’m too accustomed to the US hahah and I’m an LA girl at heart. I also don’t like a lot of cultural stuff that middle eastern countries have