Do Americans say "corner shop"? Corner shops are usually UK thing because they are shops that are on the corners of residential streets, hence the name. When the houses were built it was thought that people would need access to convenient shops so they built the street with a shop on it.

Part of this is because for someone in the process of obtaining citizenship in the US it's actually much easier to legally start a business than it is to legally get a job. And with the decade or so that it can take to become a fully naturalized citizen in the US, folks have to make ends meet somehow so they'll naturally start a business since that's the one way they can legally make money until they get a work permit.

This is part of why there's such a thriving restaurant scene for foreign foods across the entire US, a family will come and pool their time and money to open a small restaurant, and that will be how they survive until everyone gets work permits and eventually naturalized. There's even a sub-industry of immigrants teaching other immigrants how to start a successful restaurant and what recipes work well for the American pallete. This is where some of the staples of Americanized Mexican and Chinese menus come from for example.

In my city, the overwhelming majority of convenience store owners are Chinese.

I should ask the ones near my house how they started.

I def thought the same

Yeah, are they just trying to say foreign?

Lebanese for me

I have one of those at work 😀 6’2” / 190 cm. Black hair, skinny, looks like a tall forest elf.

Poor girl is on her third girlfriend in as many months. No doubt she’s just a tad intimidating to other lesbians. It’d be like climbing a tree.

I’ve had success finding nice matches for some of my LGBTQ friends, but there most certainly is a challenge in finding ‘tall attractive lesbians’ as a category 😂

???

Suggesting potential matches for people is extremely common. Especially among people who are already friendly. If you are afraid of being accused of sexual harassment for trying to set up two friends... you need to touch grass

Nothing never happens does it.

despite the anecdotal nature of this medium. good people exist in the world, go outside and meet them