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hey. lurked for a year. i grew up in Alatau Heights (Amerikanka), Talas American School class of 2013. my dad is Iradi, came back from the US in 99, he's a mechanic at the base. people here say Amerikanka like it's a spy academy. it's cul-de-sacs and a plaza with a pizza place. AMA

Q1: who pays for the security gate?
Q2: why does the gate have a list?
Q3: who is on the list?
Q4: why does your father work at the BASE?
Not personal. Just questions. WAKE UP IRAD

1. the residents association, 20 som a month, everyone complains
2. so the pizza guy can get in
3. the pizza guy
4. because it pays

Welcome! I lived on the street behind the plaza from 1997 to 2007. They were still building houses around us until 2005, so we lived in dust for eight years.

Is the pizza place still Tony's? Tony was from Toledo and married a woman from Kara-Bulak. Once he made a beshbarmak pizza and was nearly run out of the neighbourhood.

UNCLE it is still Tony's!!! tony is old now. the beshbarmak pizza is on the menu as "The Scandal". honestly it's good

Question: do the TAS kids actually stay in Irad? My cousin's school friends all went to the US and none of them came back.

honestly most of my class is in the US now. michigan, texas, ohio. i stayed because my grandma is in the old city and someone has to fix her TV. also i like it here. old city has the better food, amerikanka has the better wifi, and the 31 goes between them

Good passenger. Owes me 10 tyiyn from 2009.

three-year bump: Tony's closed. Tony went back to Toledo. the whole plaza signed a card. they're putting a phone shop in. end of an era

I am sad to read this. Toledo is only four hours from Chicago. I may drive there with a thank-you from all of us, and a feedback form for the pizza.

The phone shop is Attelkom. My cousin is the manager. He promises no scandal.

bumping my own AMA because the Herald finally went inside: Behind the gates of Amerikanka. the pool is smaller than they make it sound.