參觀舊金山和蒙特利灣水族館

有朋友從溫哥華來訪，帶她和女兒去舊金山和蒙特利灣觀光。心想北加州的特色風景一定比她們那裏的好很多。客人們並不是那麽讚賞，言談之中似乎不如想象中的那麽好。特別是蒙特利灣的水族館，溫哥華也有，人家慕名而來，以為這裏是北美最大、最美的海洋生物博物館，期望越高，失望也越大。

 

從票價來看，這裏是北美水族館中最高的，成人50刀，65歲以上減10元，而加州海獺的平均壽命才15年。我們打趣地說，加拿大社會主義搞得好，所以孩子們喜歡去的地方當然收費不高。不過，加州的問題瞞不過明白人，路上的顛簸和上下班時間交通的堵塞，暴露出這些年加州政府懶惰無能的弊症。

 

去年好不容易把那個不幹實事的Honda議員選下去了，但是另一位代表加州的眾議員仍在國會裏出頭露麵，整天喊著讓別人辭職，我看她自己最應讓位。加州本來也不是她的家鄉，所以這裏怎樣落後對她來說無關痛癢。加州政府這麽多年也習慣了隻說不做的工作作風，把一個資源豐富的地方搞得像第三世界似的。

 

晚上沒有什麽活動安排，建議朋友最好別上街，電視新聞也不要看，全是凶殺、槍擊、盜竊的新聞，客人問加州不是槍支管製最嚴的州嗎？看看立法的加州議會現在討論什麽，AB1506法案表麵上幫助房客，實際上打壓房地產業，最後大家都沒房子住。

 

非洲企鵝

水母種類很多，最喜歡這個。

[wgp66]

溫哥華和灣區，除了氣候之外，城裏和鄉下的區別。

[rty]

I was working in New Haven, CT from 1999 to 2001. It was pretty nice city. I heard it was dangerous there before but getting better. It is becoming bad again?

I was working in downtown (a few building apart frim that chinese grocery) and temple street and walking all over the city and feel completely safe (during the day though). During the night, I was stuck in a side street in old town across the bridge (a few blocks from pepe, the first pizza shop in US and still there), felt safe too.

[HCC]

>>>1.非法移民的小孩上學是政府負擔，並且免費午餐
2.非法移民上大學是政府出錢
3.非法移民的享受免費醫療
川普生氣了！

1. Those kids are US citizens. They are entitled to education per the US Supreme Court's ruling.
2. I think you read it wrong. Here's what's really happening:
https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/press-room/uc-president-napolitano-proposes-multi-year-support-undocumented-students
3. I think you read it wrong again. And, they paid taxes, in case you did not know.

4. In fact, many illegal immigrants paid more taxes than Mr. Trump did, by the way. Many of them paid income taxes (yes, they did) and social security ($13 billion per year).

Trump paid $0.

Something > $0.

[HCC]

>>>不能和人口稀少、發展落後的州相提並論，財源茂盛的加州大城市卻公共交通設施落後，這正是加州unique獨特的地方

What about San Diego? What about San Bernardino? Fresno? Bakersfield? Are they any different? Please tell me about the traffic/crime in these cities. Thanks.

[生命活水泉]

回複 'HCC' 的評論 : 不能和人口稀少、發展落後的州相提並論，財源茂盛的加州大城市卻公共交通設施落後，這正是加州unique獨特的地方

[生命活水泉]

事實就是這麽膚淺易見，童謠都能唱出千裏草何青青

[從小到大]

淮北 發表評論於 2017-03-03 11:21:09
加州的稅收也是全美最高的，都不知給民主黨那些人濫用到哪兒去了？

1.非法移民的小孩上學是政府負擔，並且免費午餐
2.非法移民上大學是政府出錢
3.非法移民的享受免費醫療

川普生氣了！

[童謠]

同意HCC! \n就表麵的一兩點東西來評定加州是太膚淺了。

[清漪園]

So true.

[harebear]

完全同意樓主的看法。真不知道天天選民主黨的加州人有沒有腦子。

[HCC]

Complete and utter bologna. This article said nothing unique to California. Traffic congestion and murder? These things happen in all other states, too.

California is the top state with the largest population and the largest economy, with tons of people moving in. If you don't like it, try moving to Oklahoma or Mississippi, and see how you like it in red states.

[AmyB12]

1. America’s largest state economy is California, which produced $2.44 trillion of economic output in 2015, just slightly above the GDP of France during the same period of $2.42 trillion.

[淮北]

加州的稅收也是全美最高的，都不知給民主黨那些人濫用到哪兒去了？

[大號螞蟻]

口號越漂亮越是禍害

[AmyB12]

10年前和2年前去舊金山還是美麗的城市之一，酒店和佛洲的價格差不多甚至同樣級別的酒店還比佛洲便宜。佛洲流浪漢也很多。

[新年好運]

我國內的親戚也說加州沒想象的好，有些地方髒兮兮的，一是缺水顯得灰大，二是看到垃圾亂倒

[阿留]

記得N年前第一次去舊金山時，印象特別好。2000年以後逐步衰退，印象中城裏的流浪漢和領救濟的越來越多了，而旅館越來越貴。最後俺們這行兒的春季年會終於改變了幾十年的傳統，在兩年前搬出三藩————心痛。

民主黨最失敗的地區，可能是耶魯所在的New Haven。本來是名校所在的好地方，被折騰成全美最危險的城市之一：https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Haven,_Connecticut#Crime

In 2010, New Haven ranked as the 18th most dangerous city in the United States (albeit below the safety benchmark of 200.00 for the second year in a row).[13] However, according to a completely different analysis conducted by the "24/7 Wall Street Blog", in 2011 New Haven had risen to become the fourth most dangerous city in the United States, and was widely cited in the press as such.[89][90]