Posted on December 14, 2015 by Huizhong Wu in Mashable Mashable, By Huizhong Wu From when he was a baby until he was 14 years old, Suhail Ahmed lived with his parents and older brother in a one-bedroom apartment in Queens. “It was rough,” Ahmed said. “We’ve always ended up getting what we needed, we’ve always got the essentials. But we never went above our means.” Ahmed is the son of Indian immigrants. He came to the United States from Abu Dhabi as a four-month-old. While his childhood wasn’t easy, he said all of the kids he grew up with in Elmhurst, a neighborhood in Queens, lived similarly. Only after Ahmed turned 14 did his family move into a three-bedroom apartment.
