Some of the German stayed at the port instead of livening at a house. Many of the German people went Midwest to live in city's.most of the immigrants lived near friends and family that were already in the United States. Other Germany people began new settlements in the states with a lot of land and not much people or bad land.all the Germany people had different homes some were of the homes were small some of the homes were medium and some of the homes are large and most of the people lived in apartments and city's. Many farmers lived in sod house. Some lived in boxcars that are a part of the trains they where mostly sick so most of the people had house instead of living in a train cart.