Beyond its strong Hispanic Community and growing entrepreneurial resources in the region, Tania enjoys St. Louis because it is small and family-oriented, with a multitude of things to do with her two daughters, who are seventeen and fourteen. “We have done everything in St. Louis,” she says, “all the entertainment that St. Louis has to offer,” including involvement in school sports. Importantly, Tania also notes that the cost of living for families in St. Louis is very manageable. Both Tania and Mike express the hope that St. Louis continues to become more representative of all the languages spoken by its communities in the public sphere. This would include creating billboards in a variety of languages as well as encouraging bilingual individuals to become service providers and business owners. “There’s lots of opportunities” for this in St. Louis, Mike believes. “I think it’s so well developed in Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, Miami, but you look at that second tier where there is a market but not much development, I think there’s a lot of opportunity to do that.

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Towards this goal, Tania would highly encourage more bilingual individuals to become State Farm insurance agents and to start their own businesses in St. Louis. She emphasizes the importance of having a solid motivation for whatever it is an individual chooses to pursue. Tania’s motivation is two-fold: to provide a good life for her daughters, and to provide accessible and educational insurance services to the Hispanic community in the St. Louis region. Additionally, she recommends “to learn from my experience and find something you like to do, and go for it.”