December 1, 2011

sunset under the Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco
U.S. really not expensive! Did not expect to write back to the first topic is the price, perhaps because of the price compared to Beijing had too disturbing.
house:
U.S. house there are three: single house; condo; apartment.
one single house on the domestic equivalent of the villa, but Americans do not know the word villa, because most live in the suburbs in the United States (suburb) of the ordinary people are living this with a single-family lawn, 2-3 storey small houses, usually in the area of ??300-500 square meters. Addition to the east and west coasts, New York, Silicon Valley, San Francisco and other expensive cities, most of these housing areas are in the 30-50 million. Chicago, for example, $ 300,000 can buy a very beautiful sigle house, freehold.
apartment we are most familiar with is the equivalent of a city apartment house, a building a lot of households, we shared corridors, elevators, residential and other public green belt. In addition to the big cities downtown (central business district) has a 20 floors of these buildings, in general, will not exceed the outskirts of 3-5 storey apartment.
condo is between the former two of a house, townhouse domestic equivalent, the main difference is that without their own independent yard, the house of a wall and another wall is a household connected together.
Typically, in the same area, single house more expensive than the condo, apartment and condo than you. So, I believe you already know how much the United States house of ordinary people money. I have a friend $ 100,000 in downtown Chicago, bought a hundred square meters of apartment, the district has swimming pool, gym, large lawn.
is no exaggeration to say that, within the Fourth Ring Road in Beijing have set a good 100 square meters of a house, you can buy two single-family in Chicago single house. ordinary American white-collar salary for six -7 million U.S. dollars, so the price is only 4-5 times their annual income is about. This way than what, you know how much pressure Beijing a house. . . U.S. pressure is the pressure on employment, decent work if you have taken, to buy a house through life a lot easier than Beijing.

an ordinary residential area of ??the hospital condo King

a condo (one of four Siamese villa), is shared outside the green belt
eat:
supermarket. Lobsters, lobsters rich east coast of the United States, Chicago supermarket in 5 U.S. dollars / pounds, twice as expensive as the West Bank, 9-10 USD / lb. China would not have said, not seen in supermarkets, restaurants, there are no thousand Yuan is get it working; California grapes, when the $ 0.88 special / lb, usually is $ 1.2 / lb; 12 large eggs filled with special at $ 0.9 box, usually only over one U.S. dollar; 1 gallon of milk less than $ 2; all kinds of good on pork chops, steak in 3,4 dollar / pound, chicken is the cheapest thing, only 1 U.S. dollars / pounds. . .
If you change the current wage for the U.S., I believe the prices you will not find expensive. In fact, even if they are translated into RMB is still cheaper than in Beijing!
restaurants. Expensive restaurant in the United States is Italian or French restaurant, is a cheap Chinese food, as well as Southeast Asia, Vietnam powder, Thai, Japanese sushi, Indian, Mexican and so on. And if that is so old meal types: steak house (Steak House); buffet (buffet); hamburg (hamburger).
steak meal in the old house be more expensive, and it is a little drawing on French, Italian restaurant, if a full set also includes appetizers, drinks, main meal, dessert a few. However, in view of the old meal considerable weight, I think the Chinese first came to the United States is unaffordable in the stomach. According to my experience, the Chinese stomach, which can be omitted two, just take the middle two. This meal, about $ 15-20 a person;
buffet, basically two types. One is the seafood buffet, $ 20 / person be good, we eat in Chicago, including fresh whole lobsters, a large crab legs, all kinds of sashimi, sushi, a variety of dishes, the staple food, beverages, fruit, ice cream, desserts everything; the other is the ordinary buffet, 4-$ 15 range;
hamburger would not have said, I believe everyone is familiar with. Just some more U.S. brands, in addition to the familiar McDonald , KFC, there are Burger King (hamburg king), and many other chains.
customary to tip the United States, the principle is: as long as the restaurant was for you (for example: Some people will be food to the table to help you, some people will take away empty dishes) are to leave tip. Tipping is generally the amount of spending between 10% -15%. 10% of the ordinary can be a restaurant, some 15% of the more upscale. If the cafeteria, generally based on one person one U.S. dollar to leave a tip on it. And McDonald , Kentucky Fried Chicken fast food restaurant is not such to leave a tip for. You might wonder, they are not also some special dishes for you to pack empty it? This is the case in the United States is not. U.S. fast-food restaurants such, all disposable paper bag, even the guests dine, take the time to remember also that he would eat the paper bag of trash thrown into the store, but do not stay in the on the table waiting for the waiter to pack. Because the United States, McDonald , KFC store is no specific staff to do this.

West Coast supermarket lobsters to

typical of the old meal BBQ STEAK, corn, pork chops, Department of.
clothes:
shopping had not planned, but because from the Las Vegas Valley on the way back, there is a well-known OUTLET (Factory Outlet), then around the look inside, it feels like back home, are compatriots! Las Vegas because the road must pass through, which are mostly Chinese tourists in the bus down, I believe this is the United States in recent years, one of the reasons the visa officer to spare it.
COACH bag shop, maintaining a consistent picture of overcrowding. LOFT in a shop I be pleasantly surprised to find a lot of sweaters, cotton sweaters, soft feel comfortable, fashionable, very self, color pale, dark green, purple. . . Feel good, very easy to match. So go to buy a 7-8 pieces, priced from $ 7 – 40 USD / piece range. I never thought another one in California bought the famous OUTLET Boots ($ 44), scarves ($ 12), jackets ($ 20), sports T-shirts, jeans, underwear and so on. Brand related to mango, calvin klein, bass, victoria secret and so on. All of the above clothing and spent a total of about $ 300, estimate, the same thing in Beijing must be your lot.
think of a few months ago in the Ito-Yokado stores 50% off European brands when you go to buy a dozen pieces of summer T shirt, light jeans, skirts, almost 300 average price per piece , are actually a few faded jeans, black pants actually one of the general and ink. . . Really speechless! America friends and talk to the matter, they feel weird, because if this happens in the United States, it certainly was close down the store. The strange thing is that the store was actually selling a domestic or foreign brand apparel stores accounted for half of the region. Doubt that the brand products are also engaged in two sets of standards, sales and sold in mainland Europe are not using the same process, the fabric?
general feeling of shopping in the U.S., while many are is marked MADE IN CHINA, but in the country did not see such a nice comfortable clothes, or see, the price is expensive. LEVIS the famous jeans brand, where many styles, mostly in the 20-30 dollar price / bar, and store in SOHO in Beijing, but it is seven or eight hundred, a thousand dollars.
shopping here, if you do some homework in advance, it may save a lot of money. OUTLET have a lot of sites, and publish what promotions during which brand, if you took the trouble, is willing to look at registration, may immediately be able to get more additional benefits. Just in time for Black Friday after Thanksgiving if such special holidays, benefits may be greater. But even in peacetime, OUTLET this type of marketing is much cheaper than the average store, and many brands are doing credit, activities, and some products will be folded over 3-4 road, ha ha! Halo ah! Fortunately, as long as you can read the final price Jiuhaola! There are many shops is there a discount price comparison table, the clothes you see on the original price, and if the store being 50%, then 30% off, from the table can be folded easily found after the final the price. . . Thank God, or really the job first Enhancing math!