Woman stayed in the house where they belong,, but if your gran ma ever tried to get a job she would have been told to speak English or GTFOYep, my grandparents when they immigrated to Brooklyn, NY had their own little Italian American neighborhood, who welcomed them.... an Italian American News Paper in Italian, the Grocery store clerks spoke Italian, the Bakery where they got their fresh Italian Bread daily from, were also Italian Americans... my grandmother never learned English... well, she learned as much as she could for an old person, but my grandfather did learn English, well enough to communicate... and I did not know much Italian, at all when I first met them, we just communicated with our hands and eyes...or I screamed, Mom... can you tell grandmom this... or tell her that.... and my mom was the interpreter.... Man oh man, I wish they were alive today, with all of these translators on the internet that we could have used to talk...
My grandmother worked for 15 years, from age 60 until 75, then she went on to live for another 12 years after she retired. She worked in a coat factory, in Manhattan's garment district, took the subway there every day.... my grandfather did not work for anyone else.... he tried, but hated not being the boss or owner, could not stand working for someone else, so he bought row houses, and fixed them up and then sold them for a ton more money... all before flipping homes became a fashion.... shoot, he might have started the trend!
But the factory my grandmother worked at, LOVED HER, even though she did not speak English... the lady next to her, spoke both Italian and English, and her immediate boss spoke both languages as well.... she went to work, because she liked to keep busy, and liked the companionship of the lady co worker and her boss
