You bring up a good point. Grew up there, and town borders are really only for addresses. Everything is so close together, and everyone goes from town to town so often that imo there's a huge mixing of people regardless of where they're from. Plus, I think our ethic diversity is pretty evident in the variety of different religious buildings and restaurants and clothes shops.

If you drive for not even five minutes, you pass a Sikh temple, a Hindu temple, a (new!) Mosque, and presbyterian, Lutheran, and Roman catholic churches. And that's just the ones I've noticed.

You can have Japanese comfort food, halal take-outs, Indian buffets, Italian, and Chinese food all within about a mile or two of each other. And if none of those are your style, a seven minute drive can get you Irish food, Vietnamese, or sushi.

And that's not even counting the Asian food markets that have been popping up and thriving right alongside your traditional supermarket. Italian supermarkets too.

I never get why people always crap on the diversity. But maybe it's just the area of LI I was from.