参观旧金山和蒙特利湾水族馆

有朋友从温哥华来访，带她和女儿去旧金山和蒙特利湾观光。心想北加州的特色风景一定比她们那里的好很多。客人们并不是那么赞赏，言谈之中似乎不如想象中的那么好。特别是蒙特利湾的水族馆，温哥华也有，人家慕名而来，以为这里是北美最大、最美的海洋生物博物馆，期望越高，失望也越大。

 

从票价来看，这里是北美水族馆中最高的，成人50刀，65岁以上减10元，而加州海獭的平均寿命才15年。我们打趣地说，加拿大社会主义搞得好，所以孩子们喜欢去的地方当然收费不高。不过，加州的问题瞒不过明白人，路上的颠簸和上下班时间交通的堵塞，暴露出这些年加州政府懒惰无能的弊症。

 

去年好不容易把那个不干实事的Honda议员选下去了，但是另一位代表加州的众议员仍在国会里出头露面，整天喊着让别人辞职，我看她自己最应让位。加州本来也不是她的家乡，所以这里怎样落后对她来说无关痛痒。加州政府这么多年也习惯了只说不做的工作作风，把一个资源丰富的地方搞得像第三世界似的。

 

晚上没有什么活动安排，建议朋友最好别上街，电视新闻也不要看，全是凶杀、枪击、盗窃的新闻，客人问加州不是枪支管制最严的州吗？看看立法的加州议会现在讨论什么，AB1506法案表面上帮助房客，实际上打压房地产业，最后大家都没房子住。

 

非洲企鹅

水母种类很多，最喜欢这个。

[wgp66]

温哥华和湾区，除了气候之外，城里和乡下的区别。

[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.非法移民的小孩上学是政府负担，并且免费午餐
2.非法移民上大学是政府出钱
3.非法移民的享受免费医疗
川普生气了！

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、发展落后的州相提并论，财源茂盛的加州大城市却公共交通设施落后，这正是加州unique独特的地方

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]

回复 'HCC' 的评论 : 不能和人口稀少、发展落后的州相提并论，财源茂盛的加州大城市却公共交通设施落后，这正是加州unique独特的地方

[生命活水泉]

事实就是这么肤浅易见，童谣都能唱出千里草何青青

[从小到大]

淮北 发表评论于 2017-03-03 11:21:09
加州的税收也是全美最高的，都不知给民主党那些人滥用到哪儿去了？

1.非法移民的小孩上学是政府负担，并且免费午餐
2.非法移民上大学是政府出钱
3.非法移民的享受免费医疗

川普生气了！

[童谣]

同意HCC! \n就表面的一两点东西来评定加州是太肤浅了。

[清漪园]

So true.

[harebear]

完全同意楼主的看法。真不知道天天选民主党的加州人有没有脑子。

[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]

加州的税收也是全美最高的，都不知给民主党那些人滥用到哪儿去了？

[大号蚂蚁]

口号越漂亮越是祸害

[AmyB12]

10年前和2年前去旧金山还是美丽的城市之一，酒店和佛洲的价格差不多甚至同样级别的酒店还比佛洲便宜。佛洲流浪汉也很多。

[新年好运]

我国内的亲戚也说加州没想象的好，有些地方脏兮兮的，一是缺水显得灰大，二是看到垃圾乱倒

[阿留]

记得N年前第一次去旧金山时，印象特别好。2000年以后逐步衰退，印象中城里的流浪汉和领救济的越来越多了，而旅馆越来越贵。最后俺们这行儿的春季年会终于改变了几十年的传统，在两年前搬出三藩————心痛。

民主党最失败的地区，可能是耶鲁所在的New Haven。本来是名校所在的好地方，被折腾成全美最危险的城市之一：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]