Hope for the future

Boiling that down, during the school year, there are (round numbers):
2000 + 170 + 1500 = 3670 foreign-born people in a city of 63,000, or
about 6% of the population. If Jay meets 17 citizens a day in
cosmopolitan Iowa City, chances are good he'll meet somebody from WAY
out of town.

Dang, Don -- slow day at the office?

;-)

Don't forget the hotel part. We do a lot of business with University
folks who come to Iowa City for a semester from (for example) Japan or
Great Britain. This is a really fun part of the biz, because we get to
see foreign nationals the way they *live* -- not just the way they want
to appear on the street.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

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"Jay Honeck" wrote:

Don't forget the hotel part. We do a lot of business with University
folks who come to Iowa City for a semester from (for example) Japan or
Great Britain. This is a really fun part of the biz, because we get to
see foreign nationals the way they *live* -- not just the way they want
to appear on the street.

Drifting this thread...
Do you take any/many of those visitors for airplane rides to show them
the countryside?

Do you take any/many of those visitors for airplane rides to show them
the countryside?

Not as many as we did the first couple of years. I think we used to be
a bit more open and excited about our long-term guests, and tended to
"take them under our wing" more than we do now.

Now, after seeing so many come and go, and knowing that in 10 or 13
weeks we'll most likely never see them again, it's harder to get
attached to 'em like we used to, although there are exceptions.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

Jay Honeck wrote:

Do you take any/many of those visitors for airplane rides to show them
the countryside?


Not as many as we did the first couple of years.

You see one stalk of corn, you've seen them all.