But now they are on the move again. In the year since The New York Times profiled the building and the eight Bhutanese families who were living there, four of the families have left for other states — Virginia, Pennsylvania, Vermont and North Carolina — and most members of a fifth have moved to Albany.

“It’s a tough decision, trying to move from one place to another,” said T. P. Mishra, 26, who spent much of his life in a refugee camp in Nepal before coming to New York in July 2009, and is now living in a quiet suburb of Raleigh, N.C. “But obviously when you compare the life, it’s better.”


Mr. Mishra, who relocated this fall to Raleigh with his wife, Renuka Adhikari, 24, is already planning another leap, to Charlotte, N.C. There they will join his two sisters, who moved to Charlotte to help relatives adjust to life in the United States. And sometime in 2011, he hopes to welcome his parents, who are still in a Nepalese refugee camp and have started the paperwork for their resettlement.

“The community has been struggling a lot,” Mr. Mishra said. But soon, he predicted, “the community will settle down.”

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