Sounds like you have lived in Boston area before, which is where my job is...
Please don't assume your experience here represents average life style here...
最初由 James 发布
在美国,你一个月就能拿到驾照。因为美国是个汽车文化的国家,更重要的让你尽快融入美国社会。
Depends on city! Where I live, booking a driving course alone will take you one month to wait...
再来看物价。美国的物价比加拿大要便宜很多,以波士顿为例,一个月用在吃方面$50-$60元就吃得很好,牛奶,肉鱼,蔬菜都有,当然是自己做。
yes, you might (I actually don't knwo) survive with %50 - $60, but "吃得很好"? don't kid youself... Yes, grocery in Canada is more expensive, that's true.
加拿大的石油储藏量位居世界第二,但油价却比美国贵得多。所以住在美国边境的加拿大人都开车到美国去加油。交通费用方面,多伦多的通勤月票$100元,蒙特利尔$54,以美国波士顿为例才$35。
You didn't mention that you have to pay annual property tax on vehicles. It varies from town to town, but $300 for a two-year-old accord. How it that compare to $0 in canada?
住方面,在多伦多租一套两房一厅得$1200,蒙特利尔郊区要$650,而在波士顿郊区则为$600-$700。
where you get $600 for 2bd? in Chelsea or dorchester? Last time I was in dorchester, the gas station 小卖部 has steal bars all around it, and no door!!! you can only buy&pay through a tiny fortified window. Try find the same one any where in Ottawa or Toronto!!!
美国社区的游泳池一年收$15元,管理得非常好。下池前要冲澡,要戴泳帽,每人都有单独的泳道,如果泳道满了,经泳道里游泳的人同意,一般都会获得许可共用一条泳道,否则只能等别人游完。而在加拿大和中国一样,象下饺子一样,既不用冲
澡,也不用戴泳帽,都可以下池游,整个池子根本游不开,大家都在里面洗头。我在多伦多和蒙特利尔都游过,管理一样。
you know what, all the swimming pools that I attended here, is like what you described in Montreal or Toronto. I suspect that reason to enforce one person at a time, might due to the previous incident, possibly not a very nice one?
在美国购物只加上5%的消费税,有的州没有消费税。在加拿大是15%,可能是全世界最高的。
right, that's bad. and I am not happy why jean chretien is still in power after he lied about polish GST...
I had credit card one week after I arrived in Ottawa, seven years later I went to states, I had to wait for more than 6 month to get one. So it depends.
一元店在蒙特利尔的DOWNTOWN就有好几家,在其他各个区更是不计其数,而我在美国的BOSTON则从来没有看到一家。
I am really puzzled then about what you have lived? at least, you didn't see one, does not mean there aren't A LOT of them
For the rest of your points, I think your points are valid, although I don't agree with all of them....